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defects of the system was that the stringent character of The substance of the wall of the vagina protruded, Aveling, recommending the case to his kind con-
the trust deeds made it too exclusive; but if that was an and this portion appeared to be lifeless. However, sideration. The statement in the petition was that
evil it was brought about by the Privy Council causing it to Dr. Wilson replaced it, and afterwards treated the the aid of the benevolent was earnestly solicited
be suspected that they wanted to introduce what were known
as the conscience clauses. The chief portion of the educe- lacerated part with chlorate of lime and of soda, in for a poor woman having a large family, and whose
tional movement had been set about by the religious feeling consequence of his perceiving that there was a husband had been so much injured by the falling
of the country, and the parties having that feling, whe- sloughy discharge. The deceased lived until the of a building as to incapacitate him from earning
ther it be
interfered w rigth.ht or
If wroanngy , wtwould not allow themselves
direc to be 22d April, and then died of the effects produced by any more money for her support and that of her
i attempt ad th -
tion it would make them still more exclusive. Within the the wound. Medical witnesses for the prosecution children. Appended to the petition were the names
last few years all jealousy upon this subject had passed admitted on cross-examination that the instruments of reverend gentlemen and others, who, as alleged,
away, and he therefore hoped the Government would not used by the prisoner are sometimes properly em- had contributed in various ways.
take any step which would have the effect of blowing up a ployed for the purpose for which it was alleged the The witness added that as his master had lately
flame, and thus they would get anew into all the trouble prisoned had used them, but they were of opinion been swindled under similar circumstances he told
from which they had escaped. Gentlemen of the Estab- •
fished Church looked upon the children in their schools as that if used with ordinary skill and caution such a the prisoner that he was engaged, and he desired
placed in their spiritual trust, and Government would never laceration could not be made, except it were osca- her to call again the next morning. She did so,
be able to make them, by Act of Parliament, give up their sioned by some extraordinary and sudden move- and he (witness) gave her a sovereign, which, by a
religious convictions. The hon, gentleman the member for ment of the patient, although some medical men preconcerted arrangement with a constable, who
Berks had raised a question with great force and great take the precaution of using padded instruments, was in the house awaiting her arrival, was marked.
truth, namely, the extent of the education under the cog- and lacerations might sometimes occur in spite of It was further shown that the prisoner after she
nisance of the Government inspectors. He did not think
the Privy Council had to do with more than one-third of the greatest skill and caution. ' left the premises with the money given to her was
the present number of children at school. If there had been On the part of the prosecution it was suggested followed a considerable distance by the police-con-
that incr ease of population since the census of 1851 which it that the prisoner had either been deficient of ordi- stable, and was then taken into custody. She ad-
was reasonable to expect, there would be 2,400,000 children nary skill and caution, or had, by intoxication, mitted the petition was an imposture, but she was
in school but in the schools under
(Hear.) There was a vastpe
rendered himself unfit to discharge his duties. remanded till the officers of the Mendicity Society
there were not more than 800,000.
number of schools which did not want aid from Government, The evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution could be communicated with.
or, if they wanted it, would not receive it if any strain was was conflictinc, upon the question of the prisoner's
put upon their consciences. He should oppose any measure condition as toe' sobriety on the night of the llth.
which should interfere with men going to heaven their own Some of the witnesses spoke of his appearing to be
way, and teaching the children whatever religion they " fresh" and staggering up the stairs, which were
chose. With regard to the expense, he thought that in-
=red upon the training of pupil teachers was one very narrow, on his return with the instruments.
which ought to be strictly watched, and might in a One of them declared that he was perfectly sober,
short time cease altogether, for in the general education of and it did not appear that during the whole time
the country they would, without going to such expense for he was with deceased he took any stimulant beyond
it, get a supply of teachers fully equal to the demand. In-
a single glass of brandy-and-water, which was give
deed, he doubted greatly if those whom they now educated
for teachers really became schoolmasters and schoolmis- him by one of the women in attendance, by direc-
tresses after all, tion of the deceased's husband. Mr. Thackeray had
After a few words num Mr. Puller, Mr. Hadfield, and it appeared, been attending other cases during the
Mr. D. Robertson, previous night, and was not only a nervous man,
Sir S. NORTHCOTE said it had been truly stated that but was much exhausted. The witnesses for the
the vote before them was founded not so much on estimates
as to the
as minutes, or rather conjectures of what might be sane prosecution concurred in theirevidence
tioned by the Privy Council. Some time ago the corn- kindness and tenderness with which throughout he
mittee was really a committee of the Privy Council, at had treated the deceased.
which the Treasury was represented by the First Lord and Mr. O'Brien having addressed the jury,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer; but since the appoint- His Lordship summed up, and commented on the
ment of the Vice President for Education neither the First
facts and law of the case, on its importance both to
Lord nor the Chancellor of the Exchequer. had anything
more to do with it. It would be very desirable, therefore, the security of the public and to the calm and effec-
to come to adopt some system which would have the effect tual discharge of their duties by medical men, who
of keeping down the amount, and of submitting to the were often called upon to act in cases of great and
Treasury the propositions of the committee before they were sudden emergency.
passed into minutes; their financial effect would thus be
particularly challenged, and perhaps modified. The jury retired to deliberate, and after an ab-
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER rose for sence of some hours, returned a verdict of guilty,
the purpose of echoing his hon. friend in what he had said ; with a recommendation to mercy.
for at the time he referred to the votes of the house were The prisoner was sentenced to 12 months' im
administered under a committee of six or seven members prisonment without hard labour.
of the Cabinet, the Treasury being represented by the First
Lord and the Chancellor of the Exchequer; so that the
members of the committee had to pass under the view of
those who were responsible for the financial department.
Since the important change which now prevailed was made,
the members did not go near the Treasury at all, and he did
not think the house were apprised or comprehended that
such would be the consequences of this change when it was
introduced. It well deserved the attention of the Govern-
ment, because it was not prudent nor convenient that a
document forming, in fact, a standing contract with the
country, should take effect and raise expectations when it
had never been sanctioned.
Mr. LOWE said, with regard to the pupil teachers, as
to whom a question was asked, about 12 per cent. did not
complete their course of education ; and of the 87 per cent.
remaining, 76 per cent. became schoolmasters ; and he was
not able to say what became of the others, but very proba •
bly the rest of them became schoolmasters. With regard to
the commission about which the right hon. member for
Droitwich put a question, he knew nothing, nor when they
might be able to report. What the hon. member who hail
moved this amendment proposed was, to reduce the vote by
£lOO,OOO ; but as the expenditure did not depend on esti-
mates but on the minutes, the effect of it would be that next
year he would have to ask for £lOO,OOO more to meet the
deficit occasicnecl by this amendment.
Mr. HENLEY said that this was a very awful state of
things. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had told them
that he had no control over these votes, and now it appeared
that the house had none. That was rather awful. (A
laugh.)
Mr. HADFIELD withdrew his amendment, and the
vote was agreed to.
The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the house
resumed.
The report of the committee of ways and means was
brought up and agreed to, and a bill was ordered to be
brought in, founded on the resolutions.
The Boundaries (Ireland) Bill was read a second time.
The Westminster New Bridge Bill went through corn
mittee

THE LEDB UR Y MURDER.

Further disclosures of a startling character have
been made within the last felv days with respect to
this horrible crime, the commission of which is
hemmed about with so much of mystery.
When Mrs. Baker was murdered and her body
burned, the money stolen, which amounted to £47,
comprised two notes for £5 each, issued from
the Bank of England. Vigilant and protracted
inquiries were made, both by detective Wil-
liamson and the local police, to trace these
notes, but, as all these inquiries failed, it was sup-
posed that the murderer had demolished the notes,
and thus destroyed a dangerous item of evidence.
When John Isaac Jones, the prisoner in custody was
searched, he was even made to unscrew his cork leg
from the remains of the natural limb, to see if the
notes were secreted at the juncture. Amongst other
places, the bedroom in Mr. Bowkett's house which
had been occupied by the prisoner, was rigorously
examined,and it was presumed that no further eluci-
dation could be gained in that quarter. But this
has since been proved to be a mistake. Since Jones
has been in custody inquiries have of course been
prosecuted with undiminished energy, and a few
days ago Superintendent Tanner, of the Ledbury
district, took from the grate in the room where
Jones formerly slept a small quantity of paper
ashes. These, upon closer examination, showed
traces of having been printed on, and when
subjected to a strong microscopic test were
perceived to be the remains of Bank of
E-'gland notes. They were conveyed to Lon-
don, to form the subject of scientific experi-
ments, and it is expected that it will be ascertained
that the notes of which the remains have teen so
strangely traced bore the mark of having been
through th,4 Ledbury Bank. Mr. Masefield, just
before the robbery and murder, was in possession of
eight £5 Bank of England notes, the numbers of
which, running irregularly, were known to him and
preserved. Six of those notes were paid away by
him, and the other two were stolen on the night of
the crime. Five out of the six notes thus in circu-
lation have been traced and recovered, so that, if
these ashes can be really identified, they will fur-
nish a very strong item of presumptive evidence
against the prisoner Jones.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-July 21.

(Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.)
James Wiltshire, a guardsman (Coldstream),
surrendered to take his trial on a charge of wilfully
inflicting upon a boy grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Daly was for the prosecution, and Mr. F. II
Lewis for the defendant.

It appeared that some boys, among them the pro-
secutor, the son of very respectable parents, named
Leverson, were playing a game called " duck," near
Museum-street, on the 4th instant, when the de-
fendant went up, and, according to the evidence of
one of them, struck Leverson under the left ear
and stunned him. After that he picked him up
by the leg and back part of his trousers, swung
him round, and then his arm was broken in two
places. After the assault the defendant ran away,
but was followed and charged. The boys obsti-
nately denied that the term " lobster" was applied
to the defendant by any of them.
Mr. Lewis, for the defence, urged that it was in-
credible that a man who had been five years an
exemplary soldier, and had fought in the Crimea,
could be guilty of doing this injury to the poor boy
wilfully and maliciously. He had been irritated
by some quarrel between Leverson and his young
brother, and struck him in a moment of passion,
hut without any intention of doing him injury.
The prisoner's sergeant said the prisoner's con-
duct was orderly and excellent. He had been in
the regiment five years, and had never been re-
ported, and served in tlxe Crimea eight or nine
months.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

The Local Government Supplemental Bill was read a
second time.
The Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland) Act Amend-
ment Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Consolidation Fund (L 7,000,000) Bill went through
committee.
MEDICAL ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this bill,
Sir E. GROGAN urged its postponement.
Mr. WHITESIDE ojected to postpone it.
The house then divided.
For the second reading
Against

The jury found the defendant guilty on the count
for a common assault.

The defendant, in answer to the learned judge,
said he was very sorry for what had occurred, and
the injury was quite accidental. He was willing
to do all he could by way of compensation.
The Assistant-Judge asked if the defendant would
be subjected to any military punishment after he
came out of prison ?
The sergeant said he would not. When his time
was up they would send to the prison for him.
The Assistant-Judge said, considering all the cir-
cumstances, the sentence would be four months'
hard labour.

Majority for the second reading .. 101
The bill was then read a second time.
PAWNBROKERS BILL.
This bill passed througb. committee.
UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.

This bill also passed thrmigh committee.
DIPLOMATIC PENSIONS BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
POOR LAW BOARDS (PAYMENT OF DEBT) BILL
This bill was referred to a select committee.
NORWICH ELECTION PETITIONS.

Mr. E. JAMES moved that it be an instruction to the
General Committee of Elections to suspend their proceedings
in the matter of the petition of the electors of the city and
county of the city of Norwich, which was presented upon
the 17th of June last, against the return of Mr. H. W.
Schneider and Viscount Bury, until the examiner of recog-
nisances had reported on three other petitions subsequently
presented to the house against the return of Viscount Bury,
and which subsequent petitions related to the same election
as the petition presented against the return of Mr. W. H.
Schneider and Viscount Bury on the 17th of June last.
Sir F. BARING said that, as a member of the mommit-
tee, it was his duty to state that they came to the conclusion
that they had not power by law to do what the hon. and
learned gentleman proposed. If the committee had made a
mistake in the decision they had come to, they would be
glad to be set right, but they believed their decision was
correct.

Sir G. GREY asked the house not to interfere at all.
Their jurisdiction in this respect was limited by the act of
Parliament, and they could really come to no decision upon
the question before them.
The motion was negatived without a division.
SUPPLY.

Lard PALMERSTON said the Government proposed to
go on with the estimates on Monday morning at 12 o'clock.

COUNTY POLICE.

Mr. CLIVE obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend
the law concerning tho police in counties and boroughs in
England and Wales.

The bill was subsequently brought: in and read a third
time.

THE QUEEN'S REMEMBRANCER.

Sir G. C. LEWIS obtained leave to bring in a bill to
amend the law relative to the office of the Queen's Remem-
brancer, and the bill was brought in and read a first time.
The house adjourned at half-past one to 12 o'clock on
M onday.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-NOTTINGHAM, JULY 22

•
CROWN COURT.
(Before Chief Justice Erle.)
Daniel Gilpin Thackeray, surgeon, surrendered
to take his trial upon an indictment charging him
with the manslaughter of Eliza Connor. He was
also charged on the coroner's inquisition.
Mr. Boden and Mr. Huish conducted the prose-
cution ; Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Manson defended the
prisoner.
The charge imputed that the prisoner had caused
the death of the deceased by mal praxis, as surgeon,
and the facts of the case were briefly these:—
The prisoner, a surgeon in large practice among
the poorer class of people in Radford, a suburb of
Nottingham, was, in the afternoon of Monday,
April 11, called to attend Eliza Connor the deceased,
who was expecting to be delivered of her first child,
having been in labour from the previous Sunday
night. Mr. Thackeray arrived about 3in the after-
noon, and remained abouthalf an hour ; he returned
again between 9 and 10 at night, and expressed an
opinion that she was getting on nicely, and made
an endeavour to assist her in the ordinary manner.
The deceased was very restless, and intreated Mr.
Thackeray to assist her ; he used every endeavour
to soothe and encourage her, remaining with her
until 4 in the morning, together with several female
relatives of the patient, who %ere acting as nurses.
He then went out for a short time, his house being
near, and returned, having changed his trousers,
and bringing instruments with him, which he
shortly afterwards made use of, using the usual
preliminaries in preparing them, and calling on the
women who were present to assist him with the
light, and• in holding the patient. One of these
assistants fell sick and was obliged to retire, and
Mr. Thackeray made use of the instruments, not,
as was alleged on his part, with a view to
affect an immediate deiivery, but to change the
posture of the child, so as to assist the natural
birth. After this, while sitting on a light cane
chair, he fell upon the floor with the instru-
ments in his hand, and Mrs. Elliott, the deceased's
sister, charged him with being drunk. He denied
that he was so, and rose without any assistance,
desired Mrs. Elliott to get the deceased into the
bed, and in half an hour's time to let her have a
cup of tea. He then went down stairs, remarked
to John Connor, deceased's husband, that his patient
was going on very nicely, but that the child would
not be born alive ; he took a cup of tea, and
covered over the instruments with a liandkerehief.
He left at six o'clock in the morning, and returned
at two o'clock, remarking that his patient was going
ou nicely, and desired Mrs. Elliott to come up to
his place, and he would give her something. Two
visits having been made to Mr. Thackeray's sur-
gery, and he being away, another medical m in, Dr.
was sent for, who having been told that
Dr. Thackeray wished him to attend to the case,
called on the Tuesday night and found Eliza Con-
nor in labour, and in the course of two hours she
was naturally delivered of a stillborn child. Upon
his arrival Dr. Wilson noticed that a portion of the
substance of the wall of the vagina ?.ad been
lacerated, and it appeared that this must have been
caused by the instruments applied by the prisoner.

LIVERPOOL--JULY 22.
The arrivals from Ireland arLd coastwise since Tuesday
have been light, and from foreign ports we have received
only 850 qrs of wheat and 1,300 qrs of Indian corn. The
exports in the same time comprise 543 qrs of wheat, 487 qrs
of oats, 1,311 qrs of Indian corn, 131 loads of oatmeal, and
612 sacks and 107 barrels of flour. With unsettled weather
and smaller supplies there has been more tone in the trade
for wheat and flour. Our market this morning had the
usual attendance of the trade, with a fair demand for wheat
at an advance of 2deer cental. Oats and oatmeal were
in moderate request, al late rates. The sane may be said
of barley, beans, and peas. Indian corn met with some
buyers, at 2d per rental more money-6s 6d for Galatz, 6a
4d for Ibrail, and 8s 2d for white per 1001bs. Flour met a
a fair inquiry, at aboat late rates.

WAKEFIELD—JULY 22.
The weather during the week has been very unsettled.
The wheat trade still inactive, but business rather easier,
quotations for fresh parcels being 2s per qr. higher. For
chambered lots not much doing, at is to 2s advance. In
beans, oats, and shelling little change to note.
Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 631 b., Essex, Suffolk, and
Kent, white, old, 48s to 52s ; new, 48s to 53s ; ditto, red,
old, 42s to 455; new, 42s to 45s ; Lincolnshire and. York-
shire white, new, 46s to 50s • red, 414 to 445.
Averages for the week :
Wheat .1,856 qrs., at 46s 6,1 d
8ar1ey......... „ —s Od
Peas
Beans l7 „ 47s Od
Oats - 11 -$ Od.
Rye