The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-02 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, April L

Prince Napoleon's yacht is gone to Marseilles, where sha
will embark his Imperial Highness on his way to the mar-
riage of his brother-in-law. Thus it would seem as if he
had for the present abandoned his intention of ri-mk-cr-g
another diplomatic journey. Nevertheless, letters from
Pesth state that he is expected there on a visit to the
Emperor Francis Joseph.
There have been disturbances at Reims: not political,
but social. There have been strilces—in what trades is not
mentioned—and the workmen have threatened those who
still continue to work. A good deal of =easiness is fifTh.
At Grenoble, the demonstration which I spoke of rer-entlY
is stated to have been unconnected with the conscription.
It appears to have been excited by the refusal of the local
censor to permit the performance of a play by a M.
Lombard.

Two new journals are announced, both possessing

special features. One, the Journal du Soir, will be pub-
lished every evening, at five centimes (a halfpenny), and
contain an engraving of an event that has taken place
the day before or very recently. The other, the Arenir
Meridional, is a far more important concern. It is got
up by the Democratic party in the South of France,
who have had no organ since 1851. It will be published at

Toulouse. Its progamme is : " Absolute respect for the
human person ; the right of meeting and association ; a
free press, free speech, and a free conscience ; communal
independence and decentralisation, without which there
can be no liberty ; the loyal and sincere election and the
effective responsibility of our functionaries ; gratuitous
and compulsory instruction, without any sanction save the
privation of electoral rights ; free churches in a free
State ; the abolition of octrois ; the suppression of public
loans, of monopolies, of the debt, and, above all, of perma-
nent armies." Your readers will notice the conditions
which I have underlined. The people are to be taught for
nothing, and they are to repudiate the national debt. This
is very " red " indeed.

Complaints have been made in the Chambers respecting
the teaching of M. See, who, being a professor of medicine
in Paris, introduced materialism into his lectures. Nearly
all the journals have condemned him—even the advocates
of " free thought " since, they argue, the professor
had no right to introduce his peculiar theological views
into his lectures. Nevertheless, the students at
the Ecole do Medecine rapturously applauded the pro-

- -
fessor when he appeared to give his lecture to
a crowded audience. He had the bad taste to make a
speech to the audience defending his conduct from the
" calumnies" with which he had been assailed. He said :
" Science ought to be realist, rationalist, to prove facts, to
interrogate nature. New truths must be proclaimed
aloud, whatever be their consequences, just because they
are truths. But let not our enemies distract us ; let us
work, gentlemen ; let us study ; work is the true health of
the soul, the hope of the persecuted, the consolation of
those who suffer while looking for better days." When
the martyr had done he was overwhelmed with " bravos "
from ingenuous youth.

If any of your readers are weary of " doing " the ordi-
nary tours, they may now, if they like, make a trip round
the world. Starting from St. Nazaire, at the month of
the Loire, say in April, they will land again at Marseilles
in August, having in the meanwhile circumnavigated the
earth. The trip includes a visit to the French Antilles,
the United States of Columbia, the Isthmus of Panama,
California, the Sandwich Islands, Japan, China, Cochin
China, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Egypt, and Sicily. Three
companies will run in correspondence—the General
Transatlantic Company of France, the New York Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, and the Messag6ries Irapdriales.
I am sorry that I cannot tell your readers the cost of the
tour ; it is not mentioned.

The unification of Europe goes on bravely. Count Bis-
marck has introduced a bill into the German Parliament
for adopting the metrical system. The pound will still he
retained as the standard of weight ; but as that is exactly
half a French kilogramme this will not interfere with the
reform.

The Berlin correspondent of the Times considers tha

the final abolition of separate boards at the head of the
administration of Poland is a matter of no practical im-
portance, inasmuch as it needed no further decree to
embody Poland with Russia. Notwithstanding the com-
parative insignificance of the step, France has thought fit
to make it the occasion for diplomatic proceedings of a

marked character. Hitherto there have been stationed at
Warsaw persons empowered to transact business at the
chancellery. They will now, it is supposed, be treated as
mere commercial agents ; and France has asked what
Austria means to do in the matter. Baron von Beust
has returned a very guarded reply, being by no
means sure that there is not an alliance intended
between France and Prussia. Prince Napoleon's visit to
Berlin is supposed to indicate this, and Austria has quite
enough work to do at home without intermeddling in
foreign matters for the benefit of France.
nere is much talk again about the Eastern question.
Servia is getting troublesome. General Ignatieff, the Rus-
sian Minister at Constantinople, has been staying at Ber-
lin, and has bad long interviews with King William. It
is on the Lapis that there will be a union between France,
Prussia, and Russia, by which Poland will benefit at the
expense of Turkey.

Miss Carpenter has just published au interesting narrative
of her visit to India. The object of her journey—the educa-
tion of the Indian female population— is of course frilly
discussed. The objection of II indoo gentlemen to educa-
tion for their wives and daughters is, that their religion
would be interfered with. Even though they do not be-
lieve in Hindooism themselves (and very few educated men
do), they wish their wives to do so, for, as a husband once
said to Miss Carpenter, "it makes them obedient." But
this objection might be got over were it not for the great
practical difficulty in the way—the absence of female
teachers. No Indian girl over twelve years of age may by
etiquette be taught by a man,
and there being none else to
teach, when the education is beginning to be of use it
stops. This prevents the preparation even of teachers,
and so Miss Carpenter appeals to England for support.
English ladies now without employment may be profitably
engaged in teaching Hindoo girls. She has devised a
scheme for the establishment of a female training-school,
to be originated and supported by the Indian Government,
and to be conducted on the principle of entire non-
interference in religious matters. This scheme is likely to
receive the sanction of the Government, and so be carried
out. Miss Carpenter also draws attention to the defective
state of education among the lower classes, and advocates
the establishment of something like the factory system in
India.

THE LATE LORD CARDIGAN.—The funeral of the
late Earl of Cardigan will take place at two o'clock
p.m. on Monday next. It has been ascertained that
the cause of his lordship's death
was a severe fracture
of the skull, his horse having reared and fallen
back upon him. According to his will the property
is disposed of in the following manner :—Legacies of
£5,000 to Viscount Curzon
Af.p., and to Captain
the Hon. John Vivian, M.p., his executors; £5,000
to the Earl of Westmoreland ; £lO,OOO to Miss
Clement ; £7,000 to Mr. Hubert de Burgh ; £lOO a year
to Mrs. Hubert de Burgh ; £2OJ a year to Mr. Marcus
Beresford ; and £lOO a year each to his late valet, butler,
coachman, and gardener. These dispositions made, all
Lord Cardigan's property is left absolutely to Lady Car-
digan during her life, except the house in London aad
the yachting villa at Cowes, and at her death t
Robert, the fourth son of Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P.
now in the navy, and stationed at Jamaica. But
at Lady Cardigan's death the property is to be placed in
the hands of trustees for twenty-one years, in order to
free it of debt before it is handed over to Mr. Bruce and
his heirs male. In default of issue the property is to go
to whomsoever may be Earl of Cardigan, which must Le
the Marquis of Ailesbury
being merged in The latter.
of the clay, the former title

The dissolution is now definitely abandoned. This is
the principal news to-day. The Etcndard has one of its
magniloquent articles on the subject, pointing out that the
present Legislative Body has shewn neitherless patriotism,
devotion, nor intelligence than its predecessors, and that
therefore there was no good reason for getting rid of it.
" Dissolution would have been only an expedient
in view of a very problematic opportunity for
the general elections. It is not thus that a great
Government proceeds, seated on the strong base of uni-
versal consent. Exempt from the agitations and uncertain-
ties which paralyse the action of Parliamentary Govern-
ments, the Imperial Government has no need to borrow
from their venturesome proceedings. During the sixteen
years that have passed since the establishment of the
Empire, no dissolution has taken place because of any dis-
agreement between the Emperor and the Chamber." All
this—and there is more to the same purpose—is very
amusing, considering that it was only on Monday that the
Emperor called the Councillors of State around him in
order to discuss whether there should be a diasolution, and
that it was a toss up whether there should be one or no.
The Etcndard denies that there is any foundation for
the reported retirement of the Minister of Education. The
one rumour, in fact, falls with the other. The Protestant
M. Duruy would no doubt have been sacrificed to the
clerical partylf there had been a dissolution ; as there is
not to be he holds on, and the semi-otEeial papers are
instructed to denounce the idea of so useful a Minister
being lost to his country's service. To-night he gives a
grand dinner, at which several of his colleagues will be
present.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT
JOHNSON.

WASHINGTON, APRIL 1

Chief Justice Chase, who presides at the trial of
President Johnson, has claimed judicial power
during the trial.
The Impeachment managers and some Senators
opposed this claim, but the Senate sustained the
Chief Justice.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, April

Iu to-day's sitting of the Lower House, the
Minister of War announced that he should con-
sider the proposal of farming out territory belong-
ing to the fortifications, a Cabinet question so far
as he was concerned.

The Landsthing, therefore, adopted the Minis

ter's view.

OVERLAND MAILS.
BOMBAY HEAVY MAIL.

GIBRALTAR, April 1.
The Delta leaves at 2 p.m. All well. She may
be expected at Southampton on the 6th inst.

OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL.

The Ceylon from Southampton, March 28,
arrived to-day at 4 p.m., and leaves at 7 p.m. for
Alexandria.

NCE.

FRA
BOURSE, April I—Thi
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent. 99 45 Bank Sharon 3160
End of month... -- It&l'au Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 69 42i Mexican Loan ...
Credit Mohilier
End of month... 272 50 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncior ...1475 Home Debt 33
End of month... Deferred

•ec o'clock. —The marke

Account
Orleans . ... 900
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5761:
Western
Eastern ..
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
human 45

RAILWAYS.

39f
545
377 f
73

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BABY
FARMING.

CORONER'S INQUEST-THIS DAY.

As early as half-past eight o'clock this morning
the greatest excitement was caused in the neigh-
bourhood of the New Town-hall, New Wolsoken,
in consequence of its being known that an inquest
was to be resumed concerning the death of a child,
only 14 months old, the illegitimate offspring of a
single woman named Susanna Baker, who resided
with her father and mother in a place termed the
Timber-market hard by. The disclosures made
during the inquiry were of such a startling
character that Mr. T. M. Wilkins, the coro-
ner, described the case as being the worst that
ever had been brought before him. The child,
although never christened or registered, was named
Frank Baker, and, being viewed by the jury, exhi-
bited scarcely anything beyond skin and bone.
There was a burn on the back about the size of a
sheet of writing paper, and there was an abrasion
over the right temple and a cut underneath.
The Coroner, in resuming the inquiry, referred
to the depositions he had taken on the former occa-
sions, which were of considerable length, but the
following summary will be found to contain the
principal facts :—Susanna Baker, a single woman,
said that the child was her son. It was born
at her parent's house, in the Limber-
market on the 6th of January, 1867. It was
nursed by her mother and a woman who came
from Walton, but she did not know her name. At
the end of three weeks the nurse took the child

with her to Walton. She farmed the . child at 4s.

per week. The child was removed in the following
March because the woman was going to work in a
field, and she did not like to leave it in charge of a
girl only 10 years old. She never went to see her
child while it was at Walton, but the woman
brought it two or three times to her parents'
house. The child was brought back to
her father's in March, and she took it to
a Mrs. Varley's, at New Wisbeach. She
did not remember ever going to see the child
at Mrs. Voulsey's. She received the child from
there at 10 o'clock at night. It was then very bad,
and Dr. Bury was attending upon it.
The Coroner said it looked to him exceedingly
strange that a mother did not go to visit her sick
child ; and, what was still worse, taking it out in
the cold air at 10 o'clock at night.
Examination in chief continued—She took the
child from Mrs. Varley's to a Mrs. Mayles, to whodi
she paid 4s. per week to farm it. After that her
child was taken to a Mrs. Halls, at Wolsoken,
where he remained seven or eight weeks. Mrs. Hall
having two children of her own she thought she
could not attend to hers, and she told her that she
should remove him, giving a week's notice. The
child never thrived after leaving Mrs. Varley's.
She took it away between nine and ten at night,
and was not afraid to take it away on account of
the night air.
The Coroner—lf it is found that you have been
negligent in the case of your child the law will
punish you most severely, you brute, for I cannot
call you by any other name. He could not call her
a woman who could treat a child in the manner
she had done. A wore case had never come before
him, for even the burn on the child's body was as
long as this sheet of paper, and yet she takes it out
in the cold at 10 o'clock at night.

Elizabeth Fryett, of West Walton, said that she
had nursed the mother in confinement. The child
was a full grown nine months' one. The mother
never attempted to suckle it. Witness fed the child
with bread and milk. She staid three weeks in the
house, and then took the child away. It was a
healthy child, and thrived under her care. It re-
mained with her at Walton for four months. lhe
child was never registered, and she took it home in
consequence, as she was afraid of being punished.
When the child left me it was thriving, but had the
thrush.

Mrs. Varley said that she farmed the child of the
mother about 12 months ago at 4s. per week. He was
then a poor sickly child. She kept it a fortnight, but
as it was not registered she refused to keep him.
No surgeon attended him whilst he was in her
house. He was brought to her by the mother and
Mrs. Clark, her sister, at ten o'clock at night. Mrs.
Clark told her that it was her sister's child, when
witness said if she had known that before she would
not have undertaken to farm it. The child pined
and pined the whole of the night, so that she could
get no rest, and she got a pennyworth of Godfrey's
Cordial, and she gave it some of it, but it had not
the least effect. The mother told her never to
tell whose child it was. She had repeatedly asked
her to register the child, and also asked her for a glass
bottle to feed the child properly, but she would not.
The child had not proper or sufficient clothing to
enable her to take it out to give him the fresh air.
Jane Ma3les, of IVolsoken, said that at the latter
end of April the mother came to her and asked her
to farm the child at 43. per week. She went with
her to Mrs. Varley's at 10 o'clock at night, and
brought the child away. He appeared very sickly,
and she told the mother she would do the best she
could to bring him round. The child stayed with
her till the latter part of August, and no

surgeon was sent to see him till June or
July preceding. He was better when he left
her there when she received him. The mother and

her sister came to her house at 10 o'clock at night
and took the child away, saying she was sorry to
do so, but he had a nice house to go to in Birming-
ham, and where he would have plenty of clothes.
She had to take the child out of a warm bed. She

premed the grandmother to have the child regis-

tered, but she refused, and said that she was not
afraid of getting into trouble by not doing so.
Betsey Hall said that she heard there was a child
to be put out to nurse, and she agreed to farm it at
4s. per week. The agreement was made, and she
took it from the mother at 10 o'clock at night. She
had the child six months, and parted with it be-
cause she was going to be confined ; when the
child left it was just beginning to pick up flesh
plumply.
Rebecca Serinshaw said that she took the de-
ceased six weeks ago. She knew the mother be-
cause she had a sister living with her.
In answer to a juror, she believed that that
sister had had two illegitimate children, which had
died.

The Coroner—What about your other sisters?
Witness—They all have had illegitimate ch
dren.

The Coroner—How many ?
Witness-1 don't know.
The Coroner—What would be the average ?
Witness—• About two each.
A Juror—Did you ever have an illegitimate child ?
Witness—Yes, but before marriage, and it is
dead.

The Coroner—Was it not your child for which a
medical certificate of death was refused, and applica-
tion made to another surgeon, and the case was
brought before the House of Commons ?

Witness said it was not her child, as it lived two
or three days.

A Juror—Why did you not send for a doctor
when you found the child so ill ?

Witness—Because she thought it was only teeth-
ing. Her husband gave the deceased some mutton
and pigs-fry, which he swallowed.

The Coroner—How did the child receive the
burn ?

Witness-1 laid it on the hearth before the fire,
and left the room for a few minutes, and upon re-
turning found the child's nightgown on fire. She
did not send for a doctor, but applied some salve to
the burn. The abrasion and cut under the
temple she knew nothing about. When she went
out of a night to ;.hear Fidler Joss preach, she
always left the child in charge of her husband. The
last time she went to hear a sermon was by Mrs.
Joss ; it was directions to mothers.

The Coroner—lt is a pity the mother of this poor
child was not present.
By a Juror—The mother never told her what she
was to have at the death of the child. She was not
aware that the child had not been registered. There
was no arrangement made for the child's clothing
if it lived. When the child died she sent a woman
named Kitchen to tell the mother of it, and she
said, " Don't make a piece of work about it
to-day."

Mr. E. C. Bury, M.D., said that he found the mark
of a burn on the body or the lower part of the neck.
There was a cut under the right temple and abruise on
the top of it. A post mortem examination showed
nothing unnatural or signs of disease, except the
membranes of the brain, which were a little con-
gested. The child had been badly nourished. He
attributed the cause of death to natural causes owing
to the reduced state of the body. The state of
the brain might have been owing to the reduced
condition of the body or from convulsions. Pork
was very improper to give to a child of that age.
The deceased was naturally healthy, but badly
nourished. It was in such a reduced state that a
slight attack of pain might cause its death.
The learned Coroner, after reviewing other parts
of the evidence, said that as the persons were all
neighbours he should not call upon them to return
a verdict against any one, but he should send the
depositions to the bench of magistrates for them to
move in the case.

Several other witnesses were, however, in atten-
dance and were to be examined, but their testi-
mony, it is understood, will be only confirmatory
of the above.