The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-17 00:00:00

7HE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS BILL.

The Select Committee upon this bill resumed
their discussion of clauses yesterday. In the chair
was the Chancellor of the Exchequer. On clauses
D and E, affecting the Caledonian Company, Mr.
Scudamore explained that the company let their
public business by agreement, but they had a rever-
sion, for which it was proposed to compensate them.
In other cases the claim to a reversion would have
to be shown before it could be entertained.

Mr. Goschen asked whether if a company claimed
under D it could also claim under E ?

Mr. Blenkinsopp replied in the negative. A
company would have to decide whether they would
claim for loss of way-leave under clause 11, or
compensation for not being able to carry on busi-
ness themselves after the agreement had terminated
under clause E.

A substantial agreement had been come to with
the North British Railway Company on the dis-
puted points to which attention had been previously
called.

Mr. Coates introduced the question of the com-
pensation to employes who had been engaged on
yearly salaries.
Mr. Baxter urged that the words " five years"
in the employ of the company were sufficient to
entitle to compensation. If a literal interpretation
of the words " yearly salary" were insisted upon
there would not be more than twenty persons who
could claim, if their services were not required.
The telegraph companies, for their own conveni-
ence, had been paying their salaries fortnightly or
monthly.
The Chairman asked Mr. Baxter for a list of
their servants, with the terms of service.

Mr. Baxter said he could not furnish it that
afternoon. He hoped that the committee would
deal liberally with the employes, as they bad already
settled the purchase of the whole system.
The Chairman denied that he agreed to compen-
sation being given to employes of five years' stand-
ing without the limitation of a yearly salary.
Atter some discussion it was ultimately agreed
that the principle of compensation should be seven
years at a rate of £75 per year, or five years at a
yearly salary.
In reply to Mr. Leeman,
Mr. Baxter said all their clerks in charge did not
get £75 per year.
Mr. Goschen said it would be wise for Mr.
Baxter to submit the return which had been asked
for in time for the discussion which would take
place in the House of Commons, so that no unin-
tentional injustice might be done to any one.
Mr. Leeman urged that £5O should be the limit.
The committee divided upon the question, and it
was decided that the limit should be £75.
In the clause which referred to contracts with
newspapers, it was agreed to insert words so as to
include clubs, exchanges, and news-rooms within
the meaning of the clause. Words werealso added
that no proprietor or publisher of a newspaper
should have priority in obtaining news, or a pre-
ference in the rates charged over any other pro-
prietor or publisher.
Several other clauses of minor importance were
discussed, but no alteration of any consequence
was made.

Counsel, on behalf of Bonelli, asked whether
they would have the privilege of going before the
arbitrator, and the Chairman said they clearly
would.

Mr. Sargood said they could of course go be fore
the arbitrator, and the promoters would then argue
that they had nothing to dispose of.
The committee then proceeded to the scheduling
with less or more of opposition or explanation, of
agreement between the Postmaster• General and the
following railway co:npanies : —The Great Western,
the South-Western, the London, Chatham, and
Dover, the South-Eastern, the North-Eastern, the
Bristol' and Exeter, the North British, and the
Caledonian ; and batween the following Telegraph
Companies : The Submarine, Neuter's, the Atlantic
and Anglo-American, and the Universal Private
Telegraph Company (Limited).
The promoters of the bill propose that the arbi-
trators—to whom, in the many transactions to be
taken into their Consideration, so much is entrusted
should be appointed by the Lord Justices of her
Majesty's Court of Common Pleas.
The committee then terminated their labours, and
the bill will be reported in due course.

HORRIBLE CHILD MURDERS AND MU-
TILATION.-7HE POLICE AND THE
CORONER.

List evening Dr. Lankester held three inquests
at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, St.
Pancras, relative to murdered and exposed children.
The first case was one of a horrible character,
and had been adjourned for the attendance of the
alleged mother. The surgeon, however, yesterday
gave a certificate that the suspected woman could
be removed, which the police took advantage of,
and she was placed before the magistrate, and sent
to the House of Detention under remand, thereby
frustrating the view of the coroner's jury
Charlotte Dalton, the alleged mother of the
deceased, was in service at BelithaVillas, Barnsbury
Park, but left there on the 30th ult., going to
a Mrs. Barber's, at No. 30, Thanet-street,' St.
',anew. She asked Mrs. Barber to throw some
water down the water-closet, when the litter saw a
child there. She tried to get it out of the pan. She
accused the woman Dalton of being the mother of
the child and having deposited it there. Dalton
said it was born on the Sunday night. She said it
was born dead, and she did not like to tell anybody
about it. She said she was quite alone at the time
of the birth, and the child fell on the floor. She
also said she had thrown the placenta down the
closet.

Dr. J. T. Paul was called in, and examined the
dead child. He found a piece of merino over the
head, tied tightly round the neck, with two separate
ligatures. It was a very fine child, and was fully
developed, the lungs floating freely in water. The
cause of death was fracture of the skull and other

injuries.
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder
against some person or persons unknown."
The second case was on the body of a child found
near Bedford-square Chapel. It was wrapped up
in a parcel, and the cause of death was effusion of
blood on the brain. Verdict, " Wilful murder
against some person or persons unknown."
A third case was that of a packed-up child which
was found in Dean's-place, Somers Town, in the
front garden of a dwelling-house. This child had
not fully lived, and therefore a verdict of "Still-
born" was returned.

Mr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, held an
inquest the previous evening at the Sessions-house,
Broad Sanctuary, on the body of the illegitimate
male chill of Mary Jane lleath, a general servant
at Storey's Gate Tavern. The mother of the child
was confined in the water-closet, and she wrapped
up her offspring in her apron and placed it in the
coal cellar. She denied till the last that she had
been delivered, but the child was found alive, and
so continued for four hours. The skull was frac-
tured after birth, and there was effusion of blood
at the base of the skull. There was also a jagged
cut near the temple, over the left orbit. The cause
of death was exhaustion from the pressure of extra-
vasated blood on the brain, produced by fracture of
, the skull. - - . -

Verdict—" Death from fracture of the skull, but
how caused there was not sufficient evidence to
show."

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