The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1866,

Prince Consort's Windsor Association.

BAND OF FIANCE

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The annual meeting of this exceilent association, under
the special patronage of her Majesty, was held in the
Home Park yesterday (Thursday.)
Since the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort, the Prince of Wales has attended the annual distri-
bution of the prizes. This year it was arranged that his
Royal Highness the Duke:of Edinburgh should present the
prizes, but at a late hour, as was explained by Major-Gen.
F. H. Seymour, most important engagements had pre-
vented his coming.
At four o'clock the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ox-
ford entered the Royal tent, with Major-General F. H.
Seymour, Viscount Kirkaldie, the Rev. H. J. Ellison, Mr.
John Jones, the Mlyor, Mr. 'l'. A. Moore, and the Rev. S.
Neville, when his lordship addressed the successful candi-
dates ; after which Major-Gen. Seymour took the chair.
The Rev. S. NEVILLE read the report, from which it ap-
peared that the society is now in its sixteenth year, and is
progressing very satisfactorily. The number of applicants
was so great that the committee had often been obliged to
reject cases in which the term of service had been even
longer than 16 years. The honorary secretaries and visitors
at the cottages report that they uniformly find a hearty
readiness to receive their visits, and the result of their ex-
perience is that a progressive improvement in the condition
of the cottages and gardens, especially in certain districts, is
decidedly manifested. The allotment gardens were in a
very satisfactory state, but the number of them had been.
diminished by the extent to which building was going on at
and near Windsor. The savings bank worked well. This
year there were 101 applicants for 118 prizes, and the sums
awarded amounted to £152 55., and about £25 to exhibitors.
Her Majesty was specially thanked for singing the prize
cards.
After reading the report, the prizes were presented to the
successful candidates by Major-Gen. Seymour, as follows :
CLASS I.—To the labourer, or artisan, or his wife, who
has brought up a family in honest, sober, and industrious
habits, without parish relief, except in cases of sickness.
Five recipients at £2 each, one at £1 155., and three at £1
10s.

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CLASS lI.—To the widow of a labourer or artisan who
has brought up a family in honest, sober, and industrious
habits, whether with or without parochial relief. Three
recipients at £2, one at £1 lOs.; three at £1 10s. each, and
one at £1 ss.

CLASS lII.—To families distinguished for cleanliness and
tidiness in house and person. Three recipients at £1 ss.
each, twenty-five at £1 each, and nine at 15s. each.
CLASS IV.—To well-conducted servants or labourers,
male or female, who have lived the longest period of ser-
vice in the same situation. Three recipients at £3 each,
six at £2 each., three at 355. each, eighteen at 30s. each
ono at 255., three at £1 each, one at £2 10s., and one
honourable certificate.

CLASS V.—To young persons, male or female, who have
kept their first place of service for the longest period (not
less than three years). Two recipients at £2 each, one at
£1 10s., two at 255. each, four at £1 each, and six at 15s.
each.

CLASS VI.—To the best cultivators of gardens or allot-
ments, being persons of honest, sober, and good moral cha-
racter. Five recipients at £1 each, two at 15s. each, and
five at 10s. each.

EXTRAORDINARY AND MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR IN
MILE-END.—An inquiry was held by Mr. Humphreys,
coroner, at the Crown and Sceptre Tavern, Charles-street,
Mile-end Old Town, on Wednesday, relative to the death,
under very singular circumstances, of two new-born
children, the illegitimate offspring of a young woman
named Emily Warner. Jane Warner, a widow residing at
8, James-street, Mile-end, said that the two deceased were
the children of her daughter Emily, a bead worker, who
was in her twentieth year. Last Saturday night, between
11 and 12 o'clock, witness, her daughter Emily, and her
youngest daughter Hannah, aged ten, went to bed to-
gether in the same bed. Witness did not know that the
elder girl had gone wrong. During the night Emily
asked for a drink of water, saying she did not feel well ;
witness gave it to her, and fell asleep. On Sunday
morning, when she awoke, Emily said that she could not
get up, for something had happened. Witness then
found the two deceased children in the bed dead. She put
them at once in an empty pail and fetched a doctor. In
cross-examination by the coroner, it was elicited that wit-
ness had suspected that something was wrong with her
daughter, but when she positively denied that it was so
witness believed her implicitly. No baby clothes were
prepared. Witness had not heard anything during the
course of the night, and the children were certainly dead
when she awoke in the morning. Witness knew that her
daughter kept company with a young man named Richard
Waits. Mr. F. J. Riley said that he was called in, and
told that the girl had had a miscarriage. When he de-
manded to see the children a pail was produced half full
of water, and in it ho found two fully-developed male
children, quite dead. The post-mortem examination
showed that the tongues and eyes protruded, and there
was marked lividity. If the children had been born
alive he should attribute their deaths to suffocation or
strangulation. But he could" not undertake to say that
they had been born alive. If there had been proper at-
tendance, &c., there was no reason why they should not
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the jury returned a verdict " That the deceased children
were found dead in a bed ; that there was no reason why
they should not have been born alive ; but under what cir-
cumstances they came by their deaths the evidence failed
to prove."

LAST HOURS ON THE LONDON.—For my part I
thought she might keep afloat four or five hours yet
(at this time I would not ask anybody's opinion for fear of
being misled), and concluded I would go down to my state
room to put en a dry coat. I thought I might as well live
comfortably for a few hours, if I had to die then. Before
going I satisfied myself she would not sink while I was
below, as I had a long distance to go, and had a particular
horror of being closed in. I went down the companion
way to the euddy deck, then around and down to between
deck. At this time the passengers had ceased with the
buckets, thinking their labour useless. There was no one
there at the time but the captain. He had been having a
look at the engine room. I spoke to him, and asked him if
he thought it any use to still continue carrying up water ;
if so, I would go and try and get them together again. He
did not care about answering me, and walked back to the
engine room, and I with him. We looked down, and afright-
ful place it was; the water coloured black with the coal, and
washing about and breaking up the iron floorings or plat-
forms, and producing an unearthly noise. And a great
pool of water it appeared to be. We stood looking for a
minute or two. When he turned to go aft, I said, " Well,
captain, what do you say ?" He replied, ' You may, but
I think it's no use." We then went up the steps on to the
cuddy-deck. There was a division between the after state
rooms and the cuddy.
In passing these rooms we saw
some sailors and firemen in there opening cases of liquor,
and some with bottles of brandy in their hands : there
were several drunk at this time. The captain said to them,
calling some by name, Don't do that, boys! don't die
cowards !" I saw a sailor down on his knees, feeling
about in a foot of water for a sovereign which
he had dropped out of his mouth. He was as cool
and eager looking for it as a street Arab would
be for a sixpence he had seen fall. I saw standing
at the cuddy-door a first-class passenger with a life-pre-
server strapped round him. I then turned and went down
again to go to my room, opened one of my trunks, took
out
I coat,
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my watch and purse ; thought to myself,
well,
saayaws well take them; laid there out, shut the
trunk, was particular in locking it (such is the force of
habit): then put my watch in my pocket. At that moment
the ship gave a roll, the water covering the port, which
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strapping up a railway-
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preparing for
deck with it, when the captain, with a faint smile,
asked him if ho intended taking it with him. I have since
been told by friends of this gentleman that he had 1,000
sovereigns with him ; and probably these were in the rug.
. . . I got on the poop as soon as I could, knowing
now that the end was near. I had some difficulty in get-
ting up the staircase between the euddy and the poop,
as it was crowded with people, who were all mute. It was
then about one o'clock or half-past one in the day, Thurs-
day, 11th January. Just as I got on to the poop I saw an
elderly couple, man and wife, with three children, two
little girls about eight to ten years of age, and an infant.
I am not sure, but I think they were the same who were
wrecked a short time previously in the Dunbar, and this
was the second, if not the third, attempt they had made to
get to Australia. The mother and the two girls were sit-
ting on the lee-side, close to the mizen rigging, and the
father alongside of them, holding an infant in his arms,
and shielding it from the spray that was blowing clean
over from windward. I took the mother and two girls up,
and set them midships in the lee of the after companion-
way. In about half an hour after, and just before we
left the ship, I saw the mother and two girls washing
about on deck, drowned.—Cornhill Nagazine for July.
" The journals of Paris," says the Impartial of
Nancy, "announce that Marshal Forey has gone to the
Prussian head-quarters, his mission being to determine
King William to accept the armistice proposed by the
Emperor of the French ; but the fact is that the Marshal
has not quitted this town."

WHO'S YOUR DOCTOR ?-MORISON'S PILLS

l'Anrs, July 12.
The followino• is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :
___

July 5.
fr.
182,500,000

7,044,776 02