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'months after Mrs. Ingleton's death. She knew it by her
sister and other girls talking about it. It might be on a
Friday. Mrs. White was told to let her out, but Emma's sis •
ter did. Witness then told a tale about the child having been
shut up all day by her sister Betsy, and that none of the girls
in the room knew where Emma was. That she herself could
not get any sleep, and that ix the morning she got up at five
o'clock and found the child in the straw-room. There was no
bed and the door was not locked, but'Emma said she was afraid
to come out all night, for fear Belsy would beat her. Tint
schoolmistress went round of a-night to see if all were in bee.
and on missing Emma, Betsy said she was gone to the watrT -
closet. Never told this tale to any one till this (Tuescbiy)
morning, then told it to a lawyer, Mr. Walker. Knew or
Emma being called in and examined once in the board-room.
Believes it was about being locked up. Does not remember
more than that time. On being told by the Commissioner
to look at Mr. De Lasaux, she exclaimed, " Oh, yes, I forgot,
he and another gentleman came about a fortnight
ago; the matron was present." Witness then commenced a
long tale as to what took place, when the Commissioner said,
"Though you remember all this, you forgot it till I told you
Mr. De Lasaux was at your elbow." Witness then said that
Emma did not tell Mr. D. much ; thought she was afraid.
Commissioner—" Now, OR your oath, what did the child -.lan•
in reply?" Wituess—" That she was afraid of Mr. I
Lasaux. She then corroborated the witnesses, Holborn,
Browning, and Overy, as to the Toung mistress having known.
that the body was in the dead-room. From questions, f,teg:—
gested by Mr. De Lasaux, she admitted that the matron Litt
said, had she known what he had come about, she would !ICU
have let him in.

Sarah Walker, nearly 14 years of age, stated she had beezt
an inmate eight years. Knew Emma Hearnden, and that
her sister Betsey had shut her up all ene- night, and that wall
all the time she was shut up. Commissioner—" Was she rmt,
shut up- by the schoolmaster'?" Only once, from .eight to
nine o'clock in the morning. She was told by Sarah Browee
that Betsy had shut her sister up. Sarah Bronger went dowa.
and spoke to Emma about half-past eight at night, when she'
was in the straw-room, where Emma stopped all night.
Sarah White was in the workhouse from October, 1842, t.,)
May, 1843, with her husband and family. She was under
schoolmistress. Had Emma Hearnden under her care.
Never remembers master inquiring about her habit of wetting:
the bed. Has heard Miss Bailey say she should be put hit.*
the dead-room, and she was once put there in the month or
April, and was kept there only one hour. Does not know of
her having been shut up there about the time Mrs. Ingleton.
died. This witness made obserVations calculated entirely tab
destroy her credibility.
The Rev. W. Temple stated, that from hearing the repo' tet
in the papers, he, on the 25th of Februaly, after service,
asked both the boys and girls collectively and separately, ir
any of them had beta shut up in the night by order of tlnis
governor, and they said, " No., He named an instance wheri.
some boys were to have been brought before the Board tor
misconduct towards the schoolmaster, when the governor
pleaded for them, on account that he had himself given t!.:.m.
a good caning.
Mr. HALL then asked if they intended to produce any
further evidence?
Mr. Walker said, " No ;" it bad been intended to have ex.
amined Sarah Bailey, "the young mistress" so often name,(,
but he should decline doing so.
Mr. HALL remarked, that Mr. Walker had been well ad.
vised.

At the request of Mr. De Lasaux, Elizabeth Hearnden was
again called in, but Mr. Hall said it was quite unnecessary to
re-examine her as to the statement of her having shut her
sister up, but she was again questioned, and positively denied
it; and further, as to some statements made by Mrs. Whites
and the girl Mary Walker.
Mr. HALL then thanked the guardians for their attend-
ance, and remarked that he felt much pleasure in saying;
that the very full audience, during the investigation, had
conducted themselves with great propriety, and it was an en.
couragement to him to persevere in his views of giving every
possible publicity to such proceedings. He added, that tho
affair would be laid before the Commissioners.

This is the evidence to support our statement; and the
public may glean from it that, but for the exposures of the
press—when that engine is fearlessly employed, and ar-
rayed on the side of truth—what gross inhumanity would
prevail in our public establishments, and how much povei t,v
would be exposed to the brute nature of man in authority..
Here we have the case of a poor child, whose parent, to onr
knowledge, has seen better days, thrown into a dead house,
as a punishment, because the little creature wetted the bed
on which she slept ! Never was anything half so inhuman--
so monstrously brutal—as the conduct of the master has
proved. If ever man possessed a demon heart the Governor
of the Blean Union is that person; his conduct to Emilia
Hearden must be execrated by persons of all colours and
creeds; and nothing short of expulsion front his situation
will satisfy an outraged public. Mrs. Holborn's evidence as
to the fact of finding the child in the dead-house, with the
corpse of Mrs. Ingleton, affords a dreadful proof of the shock-
ing treatment to the juvenile paupers. Mrs. Holborn sie!
" little Emma was locked in the dead-house by Sarah,
Bailey, the master's daughter.; when she saw the poor
thing, she was clasping her ..hands and begging to be le,
leased!" The witness Browning corroborated Mrs.• 1101 -
born's statement ;tut she did not speak to the little prisoner,
seeing " that she hardly dared to do so -to her. OW It
children!" What a very hell upon earth must a union be,
where motherly women and children, if they look awry, ate
liable to be punished! We now: come to Ihe evidence te'r
the defence; and, in the first place, a .girl named lint %-
Walker is called.- She declares that EmMit .vas never lock e.et
up-or punished for wetting her bed; and then admits that
she was locked up, and says, moreover, that Emma Hearn
Anotherden's sister releated her. witness, one Sarah White,
told so many lies for Miss Bailey and her father, as to de •
stroy her credibility. In fact, the • evidence for the defeni.e
was a weak invention, and went far to `support the chin ge.
We have no wish to triumph over a man, whose guilt has
now been proved beyond the possibility of doubt; but we
must take credit to ourselves for having brought the mate cr
to an issue most salisfaetery to the ends of justice, but most
damnatory to the reputation of the master and his amiable;
daughter. These exposures are calculated to do immense
good. They tend to curb the vicious,. and rein in there
whose natures, if they were left alone. would outrage anti
disgrace humanity. .
Our reporter has especially' noticed the conduct of Mr. l)e
Lasaux, G. Austen, Esq., and, Mr. Sharp, of the Castle Inn,
who have been indefatigable in their endeavours to promote
the ends ofinstice. Indeed, such has been the excitement,
at Canterbury, Herne Bay, and their neighbourhoods, tlu
persons of all shades of Politics, warmly pressed forward in
behalf of the little girl who, it has now been proVed, wafi
brutally treated at the instance of the master and his daugh-
ter Betsy.

LORD ASHLEY AND THE FAC-
TORY QUESTION.

The following letter has been addressed by Lord Ashley to.
Mr. Howarth, the Chairman of the Delegates from the Ma-
nufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire, in tie-
fence of the course his Lordship has taken upon the Factor y
Bill : " London, March 29.
" GENTLEMEN,—AS representatives of a large body of the
operatives engaged. in the mills and factories of Lancashire
and Yorkshire, you have desired me to give you some expla-
nation of the course have thought it my duty to pursue iii
consenting to the withdrawal of the Bill, and the substitu-
tion of another.

" The Government proposed such a step to the House, 9s.
the only means of extricating the question from the d:flicul-
ties into which it had been thrown by contradictory votes..
The vote of the House upon the second clause had virtually--
determined a ten hours' limitation ; but the vote of the Hoiis
on the Bth clause had actually declared that there should be
no such thing; the advantage, therefore, that I had gained
in the first instance was repealed in the second.
" When her Mijesty's Ministers signified their intention of
asking leave to = • w the Bills I requested time for the-
consideration Airoposa :The interval was *9ll.
ployed in seeki • in accepting the best advice. I was
urged by Xemi•ers of all parties, from both sides of the
House, to offer no resistance to the motion of the. Gown
ment ; a large number of those gentlemen who had supported
me on the question of time,' would not have supported me
in opposing the request of Sir James Graham; and had I
resisted it, I should, upon a division, have been found in a.
very small minority.
" Neither could the debate and the division have led tr, :-
satisfactory issue; the discussion would have been taken„, not
on the great question of limiting the hours of labour, tmt.
mere matters of business and points of order. We shall I,•e.
enabled, by the present arrangement, to pursue a sv,ortet-
and more intelligible coarse ; the debate may then be coin.
menced by an ainendment to the new Bill, or by some simi-
lar mode ; and the division will declare the opinrons of those
who vote whether ten or twelve hours shall be the period
assigned for labour in the factories.
" You• may rest assured that I will never relax my efforts
for the accomplishment of our great object ; but I must en-
treat of you a continuance of that confidence which you have
never yet withdrawn. A zealous bid legitimate persaverai ice
on your part will, by God's blessing, insure us an ultimate,
and not remote success.—l am, Gentlemen, your very 01. e..
dient servant, " ASHLEY.
" Mr. Howarth, Chairman of the Delegates."

CATJTION TO SAVINGS' BANKS.—Last week two per-
sons, one stating that he was 'an attorney, and the otiii•r
that he was one of the executors, called on a stockbroker in.
the City, and produced to him a probate of the will of r..
Simons, coffee-hodse keeper, in the Blackfriars-road,
they stated to be dead, and said they wished to know *lll4
amount of stock which stood in the deceased's name in Qin
public funds, alleging that they had ascertained tho atuoV nt
which he had deposited in a savings' bank, Thebroker bf
busy at the time merely told them that it was not 'busi-
ness to give information, and they left..lt turns out Cant Mr.
Simons is alive and well. Where did thou) persons get t lie
Prerogative-office stamp?

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—fI-110
model of the forthcoming exhibition was submitted to her
Majesty and the Queen of the Belgians, at Buckingham Pa-
lace, on Thursday last, when their Majesties were graciously
pleased to express their approbation and approval of tire
same. We understand the subject is decidedly the rich, st
and most interesting of any yet produced.
SPairra.—The prevalence of cutaneous visitaV. ,ns
at this period; of the. year inculcates the necessity ti pre.
serving the Skin in a pure and healthy state, so that its bine-
tions may be duly performed. The great celebrity which
" Rowland!s Kalydor" exclusively maintains as au active vet
mild and soothing agent for extirpating all impurities, and
imparting a: healthy freshness to the Skin, is mr.ost pleasingly
evinced at the present season. This balmy :and odoriferot,s
creamy liquid is composed of extracts from the most 'are
flowers and• herbs of an eastern clime—:lts discovery by a
lady of rank, was no less singular than effects have been
felicitous during the last thirty years. Its universally great
demand excites the cupidity of unprincipled shopkeepers,
who give the title of "Genuine" Kalydor to some compounds
of their own manufacture of the most deleterious character,
containing mineral astringents utterly ruinous to the Com
plexion, and by their repellant action endangering healti p.
It is, therefore, imperative on purchasers to see that the woi 413
" Rowland's Kalydor" are on the wrapper.—All others Are
fraudulent counterfeits.

MR. LEVER'S NEW WORK, ILLUSTRATED BY Citing..
MANIL—We are requested to state that Mr. Levees -my,
work, entitled "Arthur O'Learhis Wandering and
derings in Many Lands, by his 1 riend Harry LA:requer, and
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is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of G-zeP:t Marlborough
street, and may now be had at all the -Li'araries. Mr. Gil r
burn has also
.just published :-1. Cos.tsworth ; or the I: 0.
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Charles H., an Historical Romance, Vaird edition. 3 vols.. :'.
The Secret Passion, by the author *of " Shakspeare anfl, his
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brothers, by the author of"
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of " The History of a Flirt," "The Maneuvering Mother,"
&c., 3 vols.

A letter from Algiers stmtes that the inhabitants of:
the environs have been for some time, in great terror frni
the appearance of lions and 'panther s prowling round tht
dwellings, and sometimes carrying ►off human beings. These
wild beasts, it seems, generally dir Appear in the spring, re-
tiring to the mountains, where they remain till the anew
drives them down again upon; tb e