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THE SON, LONDON, FRID,4I EVP3NIN(4, APRIL 13, 1866

even a piecemeal legislation. Wrightly or wrongly
the public impression will be that the upper classes'
of this country are unwilling to trust the lower; and
that conviction, however unjust or mistaken, will
tend to encourage a bitterness, a resentment, a
class animosity more hurtful and more dangerous
than a thousand anomalies. Englishmen of all
ranks possess much the same characteristics, among
which common sense and love of fair play are very
strongly 'marked, and these qualities may be trusted
when the first excitement is over to bring our
political system into harmonious working order.
Only let the people feel that they are trusted and
respected as they deserve to be, not treated like
children soothed and silenced by promises never
meant to be fulfilled, and pledges which the first
temporary inconvenience has power enough to
break.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The Danubian Provinces, with a view to be pro-
pared for eventualities which may arise pending the
choice of a new Hospodar, in imitation of Austria
and Prussia, are making preparations to defend
their independence and their connection with the
Ottoman Empire. The people of Roumania are
acting upon the principle that an attack upon their
liberties would be like an attack upon the integrity
of Turkey, and every one knows what would be the
result of any proposed infringement of the balance
of power in this respect. These armaments the
people of Roumania consider would be indispens-
able to enable them to maintain their position in
the not impossible case of the re-commencement of

hostilities on the Danube.
The Pope has just erected the Monastery of Notre
Dame des Bombes into an abbey. The ceremony
on the part of his Holiness was performed by the
prior, now the Abbe Marie-Augustin, and in this
quality he gave the solemn benediction in the form
prescribed by the Pontificate on Ascension-day. A
telegram was despatched to the Pope, asking per-
mission of his Holiness for women to be allowed to
go to the Monastery to witness the ceremony. This
permission, however, the Pope thought it right to
refuse.

At the present juncture anything that relates to
the public opinion of Germany is of interest, and ;
hence particular attention will be given to the de-
claration recently made at a meeting of the Com-
mittee of Thirty-Six at Frankfort. In the first
Article it is stated that the dangers of a civil war
menace Germany, and threaten to ruin liberty and
prosperity. The second Article in which the most
momentous passage occurs was only carried by a
majority, whereas the others were unanimously
adopted. The reason was that some objected that the
expressions used would offend the " public senti- '
meat in Prussia." Some members very wisely re-
quested that, in blaming Austria, they should give the
chief blame to the Prussian Government, which has
caused so much confusion by its aggressive policy
and inordinate ambition. In this debated Article
it is said that trouble and catastrophes are coming
on Germany in consequence of the unlawful man-
ner in which the two great German Powers have
disposed of the Duchies as the booty of war, and
the
," open plans of violent annexation formed by
the Prussian Government," together with other
causes. The remedy for these evils proposed by
the Committee is, that an " enegetic protestation
be made which condemns all enterprises that dis-
turb the peace." Stronger language could
hardly be employed in a temperate manner
than we find in these declamations, and we
are glad to meet with so forcible a protest made
against tyranny and aggression as that exhibited
by Prussia. The German people, it is said, must
needs show in all places so " clearly and so vigor-
ously its opinion and its wishes, that those who
counsel the Crown, and those who wear them,
may have no chance of misunderstanding." In the
Fourth Article it is stated that a complete transfor-
mation of the German Constitution is necessary, in
order to prevent future violence and dangers. But
an important passage occurs which affirms that
every Government "which, not respecting the rights
of its own country, may present projects of
Federal Reform, with the intention, perhaps,
of acquiring allies in a civil war, would take
for want of the confidence of its own and the Ger-
man people the necessary guarantees for the suc-
cess of the great work of national union." This is
pretty plain speaking, and adroitly alludes to the
re&nt steps taken by Count BISMARCK under pre-
tence of being liberal and manifesting an indepen-
dent spirit. An animated discussion took place on
these declarations, which was only what might
have been expected from the excitement that pre-
, vailed on the question. On the whole, we may
consider that this declaration was worthy of those
who adopted it, and that it will be good service to
,
the cause of nationality in Germany at this im-
L portant crisis. _ _

Two dogs which excited much interest have been
presented to the Garden of Acclimatisation. They
belong to the race of dogs which hunt after human
flesh, and which were formerly employed by the
Spaniards in their war with the Indians, and which
even at the present day track the Maroon Indians.
These dogs are of slight form, in colour rather red
with black about the head like mastiffs, with very
broad chests and shoulders. They are very strong,
and though not much larger than pointers they
would be formidable enemies in attack.

On Tuesday evening the 111th anniversary of

the birth of Hahnemann, the founder of the ho-
moeopathic system of medicine, was celebrated by a
splendid dinner at Vefour's in the Palais Royal.
Dr. Leboucher presided, and in addition to the fol-
lowers of the system in Paris some foreign and
provincial practitioners were present. The memory
of Hahnemann was toasted with profound respect.
The company also toasted the progress of homoe-
opathy, and also drank to the adversaries of homoe-
opathy. Dr. Leon Simon proposed the approaching
meeting in Congress of the homoeopathists of France
and foreign countries, and it was fixed for 1867 as
an opportune period in consequence of the Great
Exhibition. The press was toasted with due
honours.
The French Academy met this afternoon to elect
a member in the room of M. Dufour. The three
candidates are M. Henri Martin, M. Fleury, and
M. de Champagny. .

A friendly di;ciission has arisen between some of
the Paris papers as to whether the first horse race
took place in England or in France. French writers
claim the initiative of horse racing for France.
The first horse race is said to have taken place

at Metz, in the year 1091 in May, under the patron-
age and authority of M. Herimaud, Bishop of that
town. The race took place every year on the 2nd
of May in the plain of Sablon, belonging to the
Abbey of St. Arnaud. Thus, when the first
Epsom races took place in 1604, there had been
horse racing in France 600 years previously. At
the races at Metz, on the 2nd of May, 1517,
the Duke of Suffolk (so say the French chroni-
cles), who had lived there for some time, rode
a horse of which he was passionately fond.
This horse, however, was beaten by a horse of
the country, ridden by Nicolle Des, a young
groom of Metz. The stakes amounted to 160 gold
crowns, an enormous sum for that perid. The next
year the same horse ran again. He was ridden by
the Duke's valet, who was thrown and broke his
ribs. The favourite horse was again defeated.

An important point has been mooted in the Senate
respecting the right of petition. A petition was
brought up having for object to establish the right
of petitioning the Senate. Such a privilege is de-
clared to be contrary to Article 45 of the Constitu-
tion. M. Delangle, the Attorney-General, did not
make a direct objection to the reception of the
question, and his amendment was agreed to almost
unanimously.
The ball given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
M. Drouyn de l'Huys, in honour of the Prince of
Denmark, is generally noticed by the papers as the
most brilliant of the season. It will be the last ball
of the upper ten thousand this year. To enume-
rate the visitors would be to publish a list of the
fashionables of Paris. The young Prince is the
lion of the day. He visits everything remarkable
in the capital. The day before yesterday he went
to hear the trial at the Paris Assize Court of a man
named Lepine, who, although a shoemaker, is
decorated with the Legion of Honour. Lepine was
accused of he murder of his mistress. He confessed

It is of consequence to notice that the Morgenpost
of Vienna publishes a telegram which says that the
Confederation, not as a question of German home
policy, but as one which would admit of the inter-
vention of the signataries of the Vienna Congress."
This is very significant, and becomes still more sig-
nificant when we find that the EMPEROR has been
reported to have told the colonels of two regiments
of Cuirassiers, which were to have been disbanded,
that for the present the disbanding would not take
place. In Paris the excitement on the subject of the
German question is considerable : it banishes all other
topics, and is the prevailing object of interest and
importance. If we should supervene, Prussia will
have ample cause to regret having ever succumbed
to the fatal policy of BIS3IARCK, and she will lose
far more than she has gained, and sought to gain,
by the late affair of the Duchies. It was not likely

the truth of the charge, and said the crime was

committed in a moment of jealousy frenzy.
The jury found him guilty, and discarded
the charge of premeditation. He was sen-
tenced to hard labour for 15 years. The Presi-
dent said, " Lepine, you haveiorfeited your honour.
We declare that you no longer have the right to
wear the order of the Legion of Honour."
The wine of i\iedoc appears to sustain its reputa-
tion. A small portion of land having a vineyard in
the commune of St. Julian has just been sold for
the nice little sum of a million of francs.

indeed that such a course of wanton spoliation and

continued aggression could long continue uninter-
rupted, but the end seems now nearer than might
have been expected, and the retribution threatens to
be more complete in its form and character.
The Vienna journals still continue their accounts
of the armaments of Prussia, which have
not be stopped, as it was at one time supposed that
they were, in consequence of the explanations fur-
nished by the Austrian Government. At Carlsruhe
a preliminary meeting of Deputies took place to
consider the Prussian proposal for a German Par-

When mentioning the death of M. Bellange, the
celebrated painter, I was not aware that he had
sent a picture to the Exhibition which will open in
May. I understand, however, that he had not long
finished his last picture—the Battle of Waterloo—
which is destined for that exhibition. It is a small
picture, but it is said to be a very remarkable one,
and there is no doubt that it will be a very attrac-
tive feature of the exhibition.

liament, and all shades of opinion were represented.
Resolutions in favour of the Prussian proposal
were passed. It is not likely, however, that this
will lead to much, and even if the several States
agree, we find that France will gladly seize upon
this attempt as a pretext for interference, and it
will be quite a different thing for Prussia to
deal with the Emperor Louis NAPOLEON to
what it will be to conduct negotiations
with the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPH. If the one
does not hastily come forward, neither is he likely
to draw back without having effected his purpose.
Of course his policy will be guided in a great mea-
sure by the force of circumstances and the tone of
the public feeling of Germany ; but at the same time
we would not give much for the claims of Prussia
against him if he can come forth in a decided
manner and demand his share of the spoils, in the
event of a re-adjustment of affairs. The allusion
to the Vienna Congress is most inimical to the in-
terests of Prussia.

The Opinion Nationale is rather facetious upon
the Presse. The Presse spoke of the warning given
to it by the Minister as a proof of the importance
attached to the remarks it makes. The Opinion, in
reply, says, "We should like to receive less fre-
quently such testimony of our importance."

Lord Elcho and St. Martin's-hall Meeting.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Being one of the vice-presidents of the Na-
tional Reform League, convening the meeting on
Wednesday, at St. Martin's-hall, it is but justice to
Lord Elcho to answer his appeal in the papers where
the question arose.
As to testimony, I may say there needs none.
His lordship's conduct is his character. Nothing
could be franker, manlier, or more respectful than
treating a meeting of working men as his peers, go-
ing down to them, accounting to them for his con-
duct, and assuring them of his regret that he un-
wittingly wronged them. The best friend of the
working class need not wish more than that they in
like case may be found willing to do as much. I
need not say that I differ widely from Lord Elcho's
political views ; but I discern that he means us jus-
tice and a fair share of representation. I seek to secure
that.justice through general enfranchisement, count-
ing as chief the right of citizenship as a means of poli-
tical duty, regarding advantages as quite secondary.
But as respects industrial rights, which the resolu-
tion of the trades, signed by Mr. Odgers, and pub-
lished by Mr. Howell, questioned, I know no fairer
friend than Lord Elcho. It has fallen to me fre-
quently to seek the assistance of members of Par-
liament, for one cause or other of the people. Ttre
of the working classes, having no votes to give
worth counting upon, and rich in nothing but
barren respect, for fairness shown to us, must, I
often think, be wearisome and profitless per-
sons to know ; but I can testify that few mem-
bers of Parliament listen with more patience,
reason with more courtesy, or aid, where we
can make out a case, with more readiness than
Lord Elcho. For his support of Mr. Clay's Bill,
which proposes to enfranchise the intelligence of
working men—the most honourable and useful
proposal made in my time, raising, as it would,
knowledge to the rank of a political necessity—we
all owe Lord Elcho respect and gratitude.—Yours
faithfully, G. J. HOLYOAKE.
282, Strand, W.C., April 12.

MADEMOISELLE TITIENS.—This gifted artiste has
just arrived at Hamburgh from Hanover and Cologne,
where she has been reaping a golden harvest. She was
received on her arrival by the Civic Guard and the excel-
lent band of their regiment. She had an address presented
her by M. Shinckel, the principal merchant (and one of the
leading senators). She made her appearance at tho Ham-
burgh Opera in Fidelio, for which performance the whole
of the tickets wero sold at fabulous prices four weeks
before, so that Mdlle. Titiens (whose terms are half the
total receipts) received something like £3OO for her
night's performance. She performed again on Saturday
last, as Valentine in Les Huguenots, when a grand demon-
stration was made by the city in honour of their eminent
townswoman; who has rendered herself as popular by her
extraordinary private acts of charity as by her public bene-
factions, having sung, on different occasions, fourteen
times gratuitously, for raising the funds to build the
splendid church of St. Nicholas, which is now in course of
construction by the celebrated English architect, Mr.
Gilbert Scott. Notwithstanding most munificent offers to
remain she took her departure direct for London on Sun-
day last. She is engaged to appear at Her Majesty's
Theatre on the 14th inst.

THE PAROCHIAL OFFICERS SUPERANNUATION
BlLL.—This bill, which passed the second reading on Tues-
day evening, for giving power to superannuate officers of
vestries and district boards, is to be committed to-day
(Friday) evening, and Mr. Butler has given notice to move
an amendment to extend the powers of superannuation of
officers to trustees and other parochial boards, which will
include burial boards, baths and washhouse commissions,
&c. The officers of boards of guardians are already gua-
ranteed superannuation, and it is only fair that the same
principle should apply to all officers.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET

Westland Marston's New Comedy.

The attractiveness of the " Favourite of Fortune,"
we are delighted to say, still continues—filling the
house nightly from floor to ceiling. Our gratifica-
tion in announcing this fact is threefold—having
reference to Dr. Marston as the author of the
play, to Mr. Sothern as the principal light come-
dian in it, and to Mr. Buckstone in his double
capacity as Actor and Manager, as Tom Sutherland
and as Lessee of the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Is
it not a source of satisfaction, let us ask, on the face of
it, that yet once we should have one of our principal
theatres crowded, night after night, by delighted
audiences, gathered together for the enjoyment of a
thoroughly genuine, thoroughly original, thoroughly
English play —an elegant domestic comedy,
alternately witty, pathetic and humorous—written
in prose yet never prosy interesting in
plot, amusing in situation, whimsical in its
equivoques, lifelike in its delineations of
character reflecting truly, and not in cari-
cature, the manners and customs of Modern
Society here in England, in this very year
of grace 1866, here in London ? Again, is it not a
satisfaction to find a clever actor like Mr. Sothern
vindicating his right to be regarded as an artist
of rare ability in a role so entirely different (as is
the part of Mr. Annerley) from that eccentric im-
personation with which the very name of our
gifted light comedian has come long since to be in
a manner identified, meaning, his wonderful imper-
sonation of my Lord Dundreary? "Last, but not
least," is it not always a satisfacton to the whole
world of London playgoers, and among these to dra-
matic critics especially, when the enterprise of a
favourite Actor and Manager like Mr. Buck-
stone has the good luck to be rewarded now
and then by the drawing of an unmistakable
prize, as in this present instance—in which Mr.
Buckstone turns out himself to be once more The
Favourite of Fortune in having put upon the stage,
as he has done in such exquisite taste, the original
domestic comedy thus entitled ? This latest and not

least radiant effusion of the dramatic genius of
Westland Marston .now nightly filling boxes, pit
and gallery of the Theatre Royal llaynaarket.

LITERATURE.

Walter Blake's heroine. 3 vols.
Blackett.

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Alas for Walter Blake ! if he could find no better
heroine than the very frail and faulty lady who
herself relates this story, and alas ! for the Novel-
Readers of England if they can meet with no more
healthful or wholesome stimulant for their imagina-
tion than is provided by this improper and objec-
tionable book ! Assuredly the cattle plague that
infects our food is not more alarming than the
moral taint that is spreading itself over our litera-
ture ! No longer may we decry the immorality of
French novels when we are doing our best, or worst,
to resemble them. Eiceptions of course there are—
honourable exceptions—but the general effect of the
perusal of the light literature of the day is similar
to that experienced by the inhaling a noxious and
vitiated atmosphere. Some of these writers, most
probably, with others, the author of the work now
before us, imagine that because they denounce the
iniquities which they delight to portray, they are
conveying a good warning and reading a moral
lesson. In such a supposition they are grievously
mistaken. We do not take our children to thebed-
side of infection in order to warn them of the evil
consequences of fever. It is not by placing the
glaring records of sin and shame in the hands of our
daughters that we prove the best guardians of their
innocence of heart. We will, however, allow
Walter Blake's Heroine to speak for herself, and
our readers shall decide upon her claims to their
attention. Cora Brackenbury is at once the Heroine
of the tale and of Walter Blake. She herself
narrates to us her own very distressing experiences.
The first chapter of the first volume—" the small
black cloud'?—gives us a description of the Heroine's
childhood, and discloses the existence of a mystery
of shame. Colonel Brackenbury, the father of the
Heroine, is a singularly selfish " gay" gentleman.
Mrs. Brackenbury, who is described as something

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The Dreadful Tragedy in the City.

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CORONER'S INQUEST—Tins DAY.

This morning Mr. Wm. Payne, the coroner for
the City of London and the Borough of Southwark,
opened an inquest in the vestry-room of the church
of St. Antholin, Watling-street, on the body of
Mrs. Sarah Millsom ; some particulars of whose
untimely death appears in another part of our
j ournal.

- The Coroner, in opening the proceedings, said
that the body was lying in the engine-house of the
church of St. Mary, Aldermary, I:nd it would be
the duty of the jury to go and view the body, which
he (the coroner) had already done.
The jury then proceeded to view the body, and
afterwards went to inspect the premises of Messrs.
Bevington, where the unfortunate woman lost her
life.

Inspectors Furber and Shalford attended to watch
the case on behalfof the City police authorities, and
Mr. Superintendent Foster attended also for the
Metropolitan Police Commissioners.
Upon the entrance of the jury to the inquest room
the coroner inquired whether the police had searched
her box and had found anything that was likely to
throw any light upon the affair ?
Inspector Shelford —Not at present, sir.

Elizabeth Low said she was cook to Messrs.
13 evington, in Cannon-street West. They were
leather-sellers. She had been in their service for
11 years, and had known the deceased that time.
The deceased was housekeeper. She did not
know her before she went there. There were no
other servants who slept on the premises.
She never gave her any account of herself. She
was married when she went there. Her husband
was in Messrs. Bevington's employ when alive, and
he acted as warehouseman. They lived tolerably
comfortably together. Her husband had been dead
six years. She never saw any one paying his ad-
dresses to her whilst her husband was alive or since
her death. She used to receive letters from her
relatives. They were placed in a box, and she used
to leave the key in the lock. She had a chest of
drawers, some boxes, and some tin cans, but she did
not know what they contained. She said when she
first came to Messrs. Bevington's that she had
been married about seven years. Cannon-street
was the only entrance into the house. Persons
came very often after seven in the evening.
The deceased nearly always opened the door, as she
preferred it, saying the calls were for her. When I
have answered the door it was generally to Miss
Cox, who lived, I believe, in the Old Kent-road. I
on one occasion opened the door for a male friend
of hers about a year or two ago, but not since. He
dack.,mfin,„..TJ et Ink; WIWI;
" I'll call again." I don't know that he did so ; I
never saw him. I told Mrs. Milisom when
she came in, and she said, " Oh, very well."

hood that she is " one on whom all honest women
look with loathing and contempt—a mother be-
fore she was a wedded wife—a hypocrite who kneels
.before the altar of God while yet the brand of
sin is on her forehead. At this appalling announce-
ment one laughter shrinks from her mother
with disdain, but the Heroine still con-
siders her to be possessed of every virtue.
Painful as is the situation, it is rendered absolutely
revolting when the details of the iniquitous history
come from the hand of a child, a daughter. Another
glimpse of the horrors of her father's gay career is
revealed to us by our Heroine, when she gives a full
account of the irruption into the presence of the
terrified children of a mad woman whose appearance
is most senstional. " Her face was seamed and
scored with the marks of some accident, and her
upper lip was drawn tightly from the gum, leaving
exposed a row of teeth, which gave to the unfortu-
nate possessor an air of almost wild-beast ferocity."
A servant addressing this miserable object is " in-
terrupted by the strangest noise. It began by a
croak and ended with a howl, so prolonged and
wretched that the shriek of the bird of night was
cheerful and tame when compared with it." This mad
woman escaped from a lunatic asylum, and shortly be-
fore, a fair and innocent lady, is another victim of
Colonel Brackenbury's intrigues. Some dreadful
accident had robbed her of her beauty, and her
lover, and her wits. The fair historian of her
parents' evils doings does not spare even her
dearly-beloved mother. We are introduced to a
Sir Dillwyn Warwick, the most revolting character
in the book—one of the most disgraceful creations
that any novel writer has ventured to introduce to
his readers. Colonel Brackenbury and Sir Dillwyn
are a well-matched pair. The colonel introduces
the baronet to his family, and while Cora and her
sister are each ambitious to win his attention, the
unfortunate Heroine overhears the visitor declare his
affection to her mother, and the pure minded, peni-
tent lady, while avowing that she reciprocates his
passion, adds that she is now unfortunately married
to the gentleman whose name she had borne so long.
Can anything more revolting be imagined than
a daughter listening to such a conversation,
and revealing it ! The tardy marriage of
the parents of the Heroine proves to be a
fact. The colonel inherits a peerage, and his
youngest son becomes his lawful heir, to the in-
tense disgust of his elder children. This incident,
as all readers will readily recognise, has its parallel
in a famous peerage case of our own day. After
all we have said we have only given a glimpse of a
few, and these not the worst, of the disgusting
situations in these volumes. Among a family of
poor cousins of the Heroine is one young lovely girl
named Isabel. After leaving her in the country in
the bosom of her family, the Heroine, later on,
going to visit her married sister and make the ac-
quaintance of a new nephew, is astonished to
recognise the young Isabel as the wet-nurse of the
baby, and to learn from the lips of the wretched
girl that her betrayer is the Heroine's brother, the
brother also of the lady whose child she is engaged
in nursing ! We have, assuredly, said enough to
satisfy our readers of the disagreeable nature of
Walter Blake's Heroine and her revelations. We
have not patience to pursue the story further or to
narrate the particulars of the Heroine's elopement
with Sir Dillwyn, and the shameful cheat to
which he subjects her, a cheat which, neverthe-
less, she richly deserves. How after all her
miseries and misdemeanours she still continues to
be a Heroine in the eyes of Walter Blake no one but
the concoctor of this amazing history can imagine.
We have bestowed so many words upon a book
which really does not merit such trouble, only to
enter yet-again our protest against this very un-
worthy and objectionable style of romance.

She seemed to know him when I described
him. She has never mentioned his name in
my hearing. The murder, I suppose, happened
on Wednesday night about ten. At eight o'clock
she was sitting in the dining-room. Mr. Morris
had to wait until the last person had left the pre-
mises, and then Mrs. Millsom had to see him out.

On this occasion she did so, and at twenty minutes
past eight she came in and said, " They've all gone."
At twenty minutes past eight I went to my bed-
room to dress myself, and left her sitting in the
dining-room. I returned to that room about
twenty minutes past nine. She was not there, but
the bell had rung, and Mrs. Millsom called out
" That's for me," and went down stairs. The
dining-room is on the third floor. There are
seven stories to the house. There is a lobby
inside the street door, and swing doors are
placed near the street door. I remained in
the dining room until a quarter past ten. I saw
nothing more of her. At that time I got up, took
the candle, and went downstairs. When I got to
the bottom of the stairs I saw her lying between the
lobby and the foot of the stairs. Her feet were
about two feet from the foot of the stairs. I took
hold of her hand, and called her, but she did not
answer. I ran to the street door and called for
assistance. It was shut, and I had to open it.
A Juror—Was there a chain to it ?
Witness—Yes. The door was fast by the latches,
but the chain was hot up.

By the Coroner—Anybody going out would leave
the door in the state that I found it. I saw there
was blood on her face. When I opened the door I
saw a woman standing up in the doorway for shelter.
It was raining. I said, " Oh, dear, do come in ; I
think some one has fallen down in a fit." She' said
she could not come in, and went away. I waited
untill saw a policeman on the opposite side, whom I
asked in. I went back to the deceased when he
came in, but I did not make any further discovery
as to the injury. He told me to wait until he had
been to the station and got a doctor. I remained
until the doctor, Mr. May, came. We washed her
face.

The witness here was completely overcome, and
her examination had to be suspended for a few

nutes.

On her recovering she proceeded—l cannot ima-
gine how such a dr6dful circumstance could have
happened. Mrs. Millsom always carried the keys
of the house about with her. I found them on the
stairs. I don't know wkether the deceased had
saved any money. The gaslight over the street door
was turned out. I don't know who did that.

By a Juror—lt would not go out with the wind
when the door was opened.

By the Coroner—We always have to turn the
gas off at the meter the last thing going to bed—
generally between 10 and 11. That is the reason I
took the candle down with me when I went to the
door.

Police-constable Stephenson, 467, said—l was
called in to No. 2, Cannon-street, about half-past
ten last Wednesday night by the last witness. I
went in with her through the lobby, and saw a
woman lying inside in the passage on her back. I
ran for the doctor, Mr. May, who came directly and
saw her. I saw that the person lying on the floor
was cut about the face. She was afterwards re-
moved to the Church.

By a Juror—lt is unusually dark on that side cf
Cannon-street where the house is situated. There
was no appearance of a struggle. The body seemed
to have lain as it had fallen. The arms were ex-
tended, and the right cheek was on the boards. Her
feet were towards the stairs.

REPRESENTATION OF SANDWICH.—Lord Clarence
Paget having announced his intention to resign his seat
for the borough of Sandwich, Dpal, and Walmer, prepara-
tions are being made for an election, and both Liberals
and Conservatives are very active.. Lord Amberley and
Mr Brassey are mentioned as the Liberal candidates. Mr.
C. Caspar, who was unsuccessful at the last election, has
entered the field in the Conservative interest.

Police-sergeant Ogbourne said—About twenty
minutes to eleven I was sent for, and went to
Messrs. Bovington's warehouse. I saw the de-
ceased on her back on the floor. I examined the
body and found seven wounds on the head and
face. There was a deep wound on the left side

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LATEST INTELLIGENCE. of the head ;it touched the skull, but it did not
break it. There was a contusion on the forehead,
(RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.) and fsur stabs in the face. One underneath the
left eyes, one in the right cheek, and one close to the
right ear.
The Coroner—That's only six ; where was the
seventh ?
Witness—l can't remember. I know there were
seven wounds. I stated that the injuries were in-
flicted with a heavy iron—a small crow bar, for
instance. I should think the wounds were all made
with one instrument. The blows on the head seemed
to have been done with the heavy end of the in-
strument, such as they open packages with,
and the stabs by the pointed end. There was
an instrument of the description I have mentioned
on the packing board in the warehouse near the
body, but there was neither blood nor hair upon it.
I should think it was an instrument like that I have
described which caused the wounds I have men
tioned. I did not search her boxes. The in-
spector did.
Coroner—Have you inquired whether there is
a crowbar missing ?
Witness—Yes; there is one missing.
Mr. Morris, one of the persons engaged at Messr%
Bevington, said—We had originally four crow-bars,
but only three are now to be found. I cannot say
how long the one has been missing.
Inspector Shalford—l examined the deceased's
boxes in her bedroom. I found a certificate of de-
ceased's marriage. It was the marriage of Edwin
Millsom to Sarah Swan, in December, 1853,
at Clerkenwell. Millsom is described as a
chelor," and the deceased as a " widow," aged 38.
I found some other papers which I would rather not
mention at present. I have examined everything
in deceased's room, but I do not recollect that a
desk was amongst them.
Elizabeth Lewes recalled—The desk I have men-
tioned used to stand on the table in her room. It
is now in the dining-room.
Inspector Shalford said he had examined the box
mentioned by the witness. Mr. Millsom died in the
service of Messrs. Bevington six years ago.
The crowbar referred to by the police-constable
was here produced, it is a very heavy instrument,
one blow from which on the head would be certain

to produce death. It had a claw at one end, and
the other was tapered off similar to a chisel.
The Coroner remarked that it would be well if
he attempted to find out when the four crowbars
were in use.

William C. May, of Great Trinity-lane, surgeon,
said,-1 was called to Mr. Bevington's about half-
past 10 on Wednesday night last. I saw deceased
lying on the floor. I partially examined her there,
but I have made a more minute examination in the
dead-house, where the body now lies. I did not
order the body to be taken to the dead-house. I
found the woman was dead hen I arrived. The
body was quite warm. On closer examination I
found a number of wounds on her head and
forehead. Both deceased's eyes were swollen from
contusions generally termed ." black " eyes. There
was a bruise on the nose, and a slight bruise on the
eyelid, Over that there was a very deep wound
about one inch and a-half in length, evidently done
with some sharp instrument. There was another
wound between the left eye and the ear reaching
to the bone. There were twelve wounds in all.
On the side of the head about the left ear there was
a very large jagged wound, causing a fracture of
the skull, but there was no depression of the bone.
Behind the upper prrt of the left ear there was a
sharply cut wound running in a vertical direction.
There was a bruise wound on
,the top of the head,
and another of a similar nature more towards the
right side amongst those I have mentioned.
The Coroner (handing the witness the crowbar)--
Do you think that's the sort of instrument which
would produce the wounds you have mentioned ?
Witness—Yes ; the heavy end would inflict the
bruise wounds. I did not see any two wounds on
the head which the two points of the claw would
produce. Wounds might, however, have been
caused by the other or pointed end.
Coroner—Was it possible for the deceased to
have inflicted the injuries on herself ?
Witness—lt would be impossible ; they must hay°
been done by some other person.
—Do you think it advisable to make 3
post mortem examination

Witness—Yes. It would exhaust the means of
arriving at the cause of death.

Coroner—You have no doubt the injuries you
described would have caused death?

Witness—Oh no ; they were enough to kill three
or four persons. Each one of the large wounds
would be enough to cause death.

A Juror—Was there any blood on the deceased's
cap ?

Witness—She was laying in a pool of blood.
A Juror—Did you see auy blood about ?
Witness—The place was dark. I had only the
light of a candle and the policeman's lanthorn. There
was a little blood on the foot of a table near the
body, but it appeared to me to have been dropped;
or spilt.

A Juror—lt was not a smear ?
Witness--No. I must, however, say the place
was very badly off for light when I was there. The
bales of goods would obstruct the gas-light in the
counting-house. There was no appearance of a
struggle. The body lay in a natural position. The
clothes were not disordered.
Coroner—Do you think some of the blows were
inflicted while she was on the ground?
Witness—Yes ; some might have been inflicted
while she was prostrated. That, however, is 3
theory.

A Juror—Do you think all the blows could be
inflicted, supposing she was first struck down by
violent means, without disturbing the position 4:a
the body?
Witness—No, I do not think so ; but the posi-
tion when I saw the body was a natural one.

Alfred Kipps—l am warehouseman in the employ
of Messrs. Bevington. Last Wednesday night I
left the premises at 10 minutes past 8. I whistled
up the pipe for Mrs. Millsom to see me out. She
came down and closed the door after I left.
The gas was burning over the street door near
the counting-house and on the lobby sullen
I left. I am positive the one over the door
was alight when I left. I did not see any one
about. I went, as I usually do, round the premises
to see that the bolts were all secure, but I did not
see any person waiting about. A stranger would
not be aware of turning the gas off in the fanhglt
There was a stick used for lighting, and by that
means the tap of the burner might have been turned
off.

Police-constable Stephenson (recalled)—There
was no gas burning in the fanlight over the door
when I went first into the house.
At this point the meeting was adjourned until
Wednesday, the 25th, at two o'clock.

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