The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-12 00:00:00

table ; red-hot coals were then taken from the fire
and placed inside her thighs, close to the skin. The
motive for this torture was to extort from her a
confession of her having yielded up her virtue to
one of her father's workmen. The pain caused by
the burns extorted a confession from her, but as
soon as she was set free, she recalled her admis-
sion, and protested her innocence. On the follow-
ing day these tortures were repeated, and then her
mother, with a piece of linen steeped in nitric acid,
washed the wounds caused by the lash and the hot
coals. A week later the same thing again took
place, the unnatural mother using aquafortis in lieu
of nitric acid. On another occasion she was again
tied down on the table, and the rhother seared the
inside of her thighs and the lower part of her back
with a red hot shovel—a glass of nitric acid was
then slowly poured upon the wounds. But there is
worse to come. For a long time Adelina had been
made to sleep, or rather to use as a bed a deal box,
provided with a lid, about a yard and a half long
and half a yard (70 centimetres) broad. A thin lit-
ter of straw was the only substitute for a mattrass,
and with the straw had been mixed thistles and
nettles freshly gathered. On this she was forced to

lie down, with her whole body in a fester from
wounds. The lid was fastened down upon her
leaving a narrow aperture for the air, and she was
kept there for days together."
The acte d'accusation describes another assault
committed by these unnatural parents on their
daughter, and the medical evidence proved it. It
is utterly indescribable in English. The evidence
fully corroborated the statements of the acte &accu-
sation, with the exception, however, of that of Ade-
lina herself, who, doubtless under the influence of
terror at the sight of her father and mother, alleged
that her previous depositions were untrue. The
mother, who was examined, admitted that " she
had only thrown a glassful of vitriol over h%•r
thighs." Both husband and wife were sentenced
to hard labour for life.

THE CORK COUNUIL2IIAN AND THE

SILVER CRADLE.

The Cork papers report a speech delivered in the
Council Chamber of that city in a style remarkable
for originality.
Upon the minutes of proceedings of last meeting
being read,

SHEEHAN started up and said—Mr. Mayor,
my notice of motion ought to be the first on the
list, sir, for I spoke about it long and merry ago.
(Laughter.)
MAYOR—But it is not the first.

Mr. SHEEHAN—WeII, then, I'll bring it forward
first, sir, because 'tis the first thing we ought to do.
Mr. 'FLYN—'Tis not the first.

Mr. SHEEHAN—nris immaterial where 'tis, sir, so
now Mr. O'Flyn, don't you be interrupting with
yer d—d nonsense, Dinny_(laughter)_l don't
want to flatter the Mayor at all, but four weeks be-
fore any one o'ye spoke of it, I spoke about the
Silver Cradle. A long time before I la:kw the
Mayor, and before he was in the council at all, I
found charitable movements in him for many years.
I hadn't the honour o' knowing him till I met
him at the gars meetin' first, an' was intro-
duced to tiim by Mr. M'Ostrich at the
gas, whie!i he joined, and which we saved
30 per cent. for the people. Now he joins
everything that's a locomotive of his principles.
(Shouts of laughter.) He do, indeed; and only for
our lookin' for our locomotive principles, what 'ud
become ov us ? (Laughter.) ',I hope the Harbour
Board won't be thanked for not to look to our
harbour, sir, an' mindin' our locomotive principles
and our intherests in the harbour. (Much laughter.)
I spoke out my mind about thim before, an' in
doin' so I proposed, about two or three weeks ago,
that we get up a silver cradle for Lady Arnott—
(hear, and laughter)—and the raisin I done so,
because she was the wife of a respectable an'
charitable man, who was giving, before ever he was
in the council at all, charity every Christmas—
(hear, hear)—long before I ever seen him. (Loud
-laughter.) Gentlemen, I had a great friendship for
his kindness to the poor of every class and every
re-
ligion; and,besides that, sir, here's the gentleman
that gave Mrs.—Mrs.—Mm. Ryan, in Limerick—
she ..ot a large one there. (Laughter.) I suppose, as
much in one half-year as he gives, Mrs. Arnott gave
thirty times more—(hear, and laughter) —and if he
was not in the council at all, I think we really ought
to pay him a compliment. (Hear, hear.) Now, here's
.-C2,500 distributed to the poor and all kinds of
religions by his means. Under these cirumstances,
I do him the honour of proposing that we give a
silver cradle to Lady Arnott, for she's a kind, hum-
ble-hearted being. (Laughter.) She is, and she
has none of those pretended aristocratic airs about
her that some of our daughters have sometimes.
(Loud laughter, and cries of " Have they ?") They
have, I assurre you ; and sometimes they don't
know themselves or anybody else. (Renewed
laughter.) She has no unfriendly feeling to
her husband. ' (Shouts of laughter.) What the
d—l are ye laughing at ? Sure ye know very
well—we that's married men know very well—
that our wives often differ with us. (Laugh-
ter.) Of pourse ye know well they do—in
religion, sir, an' charity; But she is always, I'm
tould, supporting him in the principles of a kind-
hearted lady. (Laughter.) I hope we'll give her
a decent one, and one that will be the proper size,
an' not one o' thim little things that I heard it was
to be.

The proposition was agreed to by acclamation.
MAYOR—Gentlemen, I am afraid you have reek.
oned without your host, for really this stranger that
is come to Monkstown is said to be a thumper.
(Laughter.)
Mr. SHEEHAN—He's a son, too. I forgot to min-
tion that. (Much laughter, and cries of, "Is he,
indeed ?") It ought to be a large one, that he could
grow in, mind you.
MAYOR—My wife says it would take more silver
to cover him than would break the corporation. If
you propose it according to Mr. Sheehan's dimen-
sions, I am afraid you will find yourselves in a ter-
sible state.

Mr. SHEEHAN—Not at all. I propose that it be
done in slap-up style. (Laughter.)

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND
PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

War-office-7 Mr. E. G. P. Mayers has been ap-
pointed a temporary clerk, and passed his exami-
nation ; Mr. C. B. Griffeth has been appointed a
temporary clerk, and passed his examination. The
Admiralty—Mr. P. B. Smith has been appointed a
temporary clerk, and passed his examination. Law
Department—A puisue judgeship in the Court of
Common Pleas has become vacant by the death of
Mr. Justice Crowder. Charity Commission—Mr
Lancelot Shadw ell has been appointed a third-
class clerk in London, and passed his examination.
General Post-office—Mr. Richard Corser Owen has
been 'appointed clerk at Chester, and passed his
examination, Customs—Mr. E. A. West has been
promoted frOm fourth to third-class clerk in the
London Docks ; Mr. George Marshall has been
promoted from fifth to fourth-class clerk in ditto ;
Mr. R. F. Lalcon has been promoted from sixth
to fifth-class clerk in ditto ; Mr. John Kilbride
has been promoted from third to second-class
tidewaiter in London. Inland Revenue De-
partment—Mr. Edward Allan Robertson has been
appointed a clerk in the Comptroller-General's-
office, Edinburgh, and passed his examination.
Stamps and Taxes Branch—Mr. W. H. Balderstone
has been appointed a supernumerary surveyor of
taxes in Scotland, and passed his examination ; Mr.
T. Moore, assistant-surveyor of taxes for St. George's
Hanover-square, London, has been promoted to be
surveyor of taxes at Retford, Nottinghamshire. Ex-
cise Branch—Messrs. Rainsford, Davis, and Birtch-
nell, examiners, have been selected to officiate tem-
porarily in the Inland Revenue Laboratory, Somer-
Set-house ; Mr. J. Vine, second clerk in Salop col-
lection, has been appointed officer of Salop third
division, at his own request. Ireland—The follow-
ing gentlemen have been appointed clerks in the
Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin, and successfully
passed their examinations :—Mr. James Magee,
Mr. Daniel O'Connell Ray, Mr. Joseph Ramsay,
Mr. Daniel O'Connell, Mr. James Francis Swain°,
Mr. John Rollin Wilby, Mr. Bernar Connor, Mr.
Benjamin Downing, Mr. Sampson Courtenay
M‘Watters, Mr. Thomas George Marsh, Mr. John
Joseph Costello, Mr. Francis Alex. Fanning, Mr.
Albert Nicholson, Mr. Samuel Tram, M'Carthy,
Mr. William Nicholas, Mr. David Rogers, Mr.
Edward Walsh, Mr. William Ward, Mr. Daniel
Kirk. Ceylon--The Chief Justiceship of Ceylon
has become vacant by the death of Sir Wm. Car-
penter Rowe.—Civil Service Gazette.

Is CONSUMPTION INCURABLE ? Invalids labouring
under Consumptive Maladies, and families who have
suffered from the ravages of Consumption (and what
family in the empire is there who has not to deplore a
loss caused by this scourge of the human race ?) will find
a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is Consumption In-
curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS CRONIN,
M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in
the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each
by G. Berger, 13, Holywcll-street, Strand. From Ito 9 now
ready.
[AnvEnTisEmENT.]—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—
Consequences of Neglect.—ln our variable climate the
larger proportion of diseases to which mankind is liable
depends on the neglect or ineficient treatment of coughs,
t Olds, influenza, and rheumatism. The prudent will pay
attention to the first symptoms, which are removed at once
by the use of Holloway's Pills and Ointment. In chest
complaints, while taking his Pills, their effect is quickened,
and increased by briskly rubbing his Ointment'on the back
and breast twice a day for five minutes, or longer if conve-
nient. The friction causes the Ointment to penetrate the
skin, whence it passes to ths lungs, and purifies the whole
mass of blood, as it flows through those organs in its cir-
culation.