The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1850.51.

ANTRlM.—Alexander Montgomery, of Potter's Wall.
ARMAGU.—James Harden, of Harry brook,Tanderagee.
CARLow.—Beauchamp B. Newton, of Rath wade.
CARRICKFERGUS TOWN.—Peter Kirk, of Thornfield.
CAVAN.—Hun. H. CaTend:sh Butler, of Lanesborough
Lodge.
CLARE.—Major William IL Bull, of Fortfergus.
CORK.—Sir George C. Colthurst, Bart., of Ardrum.
CORK ClTr.—William Wriaton Leicester, of Cork.
DoNEQAL.—John Fergasou, of Castle Forward.
DowN.—Archibald Rowan Hamilton, of Killileagh
Castie.

DupluEDe. TowN.—J. Chadwick, of Drogheda.
DUBLlN.—Robert Alexander, of Garristown.
DUBLIN CITY.—John M'Donnell, Esq., of Marrion-
square.
FERMANAGH. —Thomas Morris Jones, of Belloo.
GALwAr.—William H. Gregory, of Coolpark.
GALWAY TowN.—Thomas M. Persse, of Newcastle.
KERRY.—Maurice John O'Connell, of Lakeview.
KlLDARB.—Nathaniel Barton, of StraffAn.
KILKENNY.—John De Montmorency, of Castle Morris.
KILKENNY ClTY.—Richard Smithwick, of Birchfield.
KING'S COUNTY.—Edward John Borr, Ballindolan.
LEITRIM.—William Johnston, of Kinlough House.
LIMERICK.—Eyre Lloyd, of Prospect Castle, Castle
Connell.

LIMERICK ClTY.—William Spaight, Limerick.
LONDONDERRY CITY •ND COITNTY.—Robert Peel
Dawson, Moyla Park.
LORGIORD.—John Shuldham, of Moy.
LOUTH.—Sir Frederick G. Foster, BALI., New Spring-
gardens, London.
MAYO.—Charles Mahon, of Mountpleaaant.
MEATS.—Michael Thunder, of Lagore.
MONAGHAN.—WiIIiam Verner, of Churchill.
QUEEN'S COUNTY.—Henry D. Carden, of Rathmanna.
lioscommoN.—Henry S. P. Mahon, of Strokestown
House.

Suao.—Bernard Owen Cogan, of Liseonny House.
TlPPERAM—Lieutenaut Colonel W. Palliser, Derry-
besken House.

TYRONE.— Henry D'Arcy, of Necairn Castle.
WATERFORD.—Edward O'Dell, of Carriglea.
WATERFORD ClTY.—Henry Bolton, of Tramore.
WESTMEATEL—Sir J. Nugent, Bart., of Balenlough.
WEXFORD.—Ed ward W. Nunn, of St. Margaret's.
WlCKLOW.—Richard H. Brooke, of Castle Howard.

SUPERSTITION AND QUACKERY.
An extraordinary development of the existence of
superstition and quackery has just taken place in the
course of the proceedings of an inquest held on the
body of a child at East Dean, Gloucestershire. It
seems that the children of a shoemaker,
named Haynes were playing together, when
one of them, aged four years, named
Louisa, put the tongs into the fire, heated
them, and then wantonly seized her younger sister,
Emma, with them by the neck, thereby inflicting two
very severe burns. The children were left in the care
of an elder brother, who did not perceive the inten-
tions of his mischievous sister until too late to prevent
them. Flour, linseed oil, and limewater, were ap-
plied to the burns, and for four days the child's
wounds were healing in a satisfactory manner,
when, by the advice of some old women in the
neighbourhood, the parents of the child suffered a
Mrs. Milling, living near, to apply an ointment
spread upon cabbage-leaves to the wounds, in lieu of
the previous application of linseed oil, &c. This had
the effect of creating considerable local inflammation ;
and, after two days, the cabbage-leaves were removed
and another quack doctress was allowed to practise
upon the little sufferer. The second woman, whose
name is Jane Yemen, and who lives at Cinderford,
in the Dean Forest, and who professed to have cured
many people by the application of an ointment and
pronouncing a mysterious charm," got her sister,
Ann Bradley, to prepare the salve, which she (Ye-
men) applied, at the same time muttering the follow-
ing charm, as she called it, in a peculiar dialect :
" Three angels come out of the whost;
One cries Fire;' another Frost;'
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
The poor child gradually got worse. The inflam-
mation and sloughing of the wounds increased, but
the infatuated parents believing in the supernatural
powers of the woman (Yemen), and putting implicit
faith in the pronounced charm, suffered their off.
spring to linger in torture for five days longer, when
death came to her release. Medical assistance was
at band, and might readily have been obtained
at any time, but the ignorant parents refused to call
for it, and the child died in consequence. Of course,
when the facts came to the knowledge of the authori-
ties, a coroner's inquest was held, and, after one
adjournment of the jury, who hesitated whether it
was not their duty to find a verdict of manslaughter
against Yemen, Bradley, and Milling, returned
a special and lengthy verdict, finding, "That Ann
Milling had prescribed a dangerous and rash remedy,
and was otherwise guilty of negligence." They
also found " that Yemen was rash in relying on the
ointment applied by her, and in her impious and
presumptuous charm ;" and also in prohibiting the
parents calling in medical advice at a time when the
deceased was in danger and gradually sinking.
Lastly, they found that " Although the conduct of
Jane Milling and Ann Yemen amounted to great and
serious culpability, rashness, and negligence, yet the
same does not, in our opinion, amount to a legally
criminal and felonious culpability, rashness, and
negligence." The jury also expressed their
opinion that it was the duty of the parents to
have had recourse to better assistance, and to the
easily available medical assistance in their immediate
neighbourhood, and they expressed a hope that the
result of the investigation would lead to a discon-
tinuance of the system of quackery, which prevailed
to a considerable extent in the neighbourhood of the
Forest of Dean.

ISIPROTEILENTS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS.—III
these new works the Honourable Commissioners
would seem to have taken seriously in hand the Augean
task of purifying the Serpentine. In the first ;Lee
they have cleared oat the fetid bed which the pre•
viously ill-arranged sewage system at the head of
that piece of water had so deeply deposited. With
the progress of that operation frequenters of
the gardens have been familiar. Their next and more
recant proceedings have been to bring a supply of pure
water (let them if they please, say purior electro) to the
rustic bridge head at the Bayswater end by a line of
metal pipe communicating with the Artesian well at
Charing-cross. This, together with a contribution from
the Chelsea water-works, which have hitherto given that
strange caricature of a fountain—by which this scene has
bees, but is no longer, disfigured—its aquatic gush, will
replenish for the future our metropolitan lakelet.
Their united current will he brought through the arch-
ways of the bridge—and as their volume canrrot, at best,
be very copious, its flow being unfortunately a drain of
incessant expenditure, measures seem to have been judi-
ciously taken to give it as much strength as possible.
These consist in raising the bed where the waters
break forth by a gradual ascent to the mouth of the
arches, and, at the same time, drawing in the
banks on each side, till narrowed to the breadth
of the bridge. This is at once simple and obviously
effective. The change, has, however, to be made as yet
complete by ornamental details ; in which we trust that
the Honourable Commissioners, moving, as they now are,
spontaneously in the right direction, will not be found
wanting. What has been done tends, pro canto, to com-
plete the original design with which this regal domain
was laid out, in which stateliness and inartificial beauty
—the rich in general effect, the beautiful to closer scru-
tiny—were happily intended to be combined.—Architect
and Building Operative.

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTR NOTTS.—It is said
that, in consequence of the ill-health of Mr. Bromley, a
vacancy will shortly be declared in the representation of
this division of the county. Several candidates in the
Protectionist interest are already talked of.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM CARNARVON COUNTY
GAOL.—About half-past seven o'clock on the evening of
Thursday, an attempt was made by six prisoners (who
were committed for trial) to escape front custody. A
person named James Healey led the way, by scaling
the wall of the ward, which is connected with
the boundary wall at right angles. Ho accom-
plished this by lashing together three long brush
handles, on which he climbed. He soon suc-
ceeded in reaching the outer wall, which is only about
eight feet higher than the other ; and by means of a
rope tied to the projecting spikes, descendedwever,fir. D
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adjoining premises. Fortunately,
extocitekdeedpuria'ngeltohaee
(dtahye, ghaeolehra)dsuosprdiceiroends beenhthaevintgurnkey
watch upon the prisoners; and when a second party,
named Griffith, was preparing to make his descent,
the
,turnkey entered and gave the alarm. Mr.
Dixon immediately proceeded to the other side of the
wall, and having secured Griffith, wtnt in search of
Healey, whom he eventually found snugly situated un-
der a flight of stairs leading from the garden to the
parapet of the town walls, resting his body on a plank
which projected from the prison wall, and sheltered
from view by the lath work. The rope, which was in
pieces of about two yards in length, must have been
thrown over the walls to the prisoners, as there was
none within their reach.—North Wales Gazette.
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMAIIT IN IRELAND.-....
The Freeman's Journal states, on the authority of a
letter received from Rome, dated the 14th inst., that the
Very Rev. Dr. Cullen, President of the Irish College
in the Holy City, has been appointed successor to the
late Archbishop Crolly in the Roman Catholic Primacy
of Ireland.