The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1885-08-22 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

BRADLAUGH, M.P.  so if witness said so. Witness replied, No; it would be a very inhuman thing, to do; she is suffering from other things besides immersion in the water.' This was the end of the conversation, and the deceased was immediatdly conveyed to bed, where every possible remedy was applied." On the strength of these statements, Mr. Churton, the coroner, held Dr. Hyrons to have acted quite rightly and the officer to have been in the wrong. He also went somewhat out of his way to pay Dr. Hyrons a series of handsome compliments, which we hope were well deserved. But it is doubtful whether his judgment will be altogether I ratified by the general public. There is no reason to suppose that anything more could have been done for the poor woman than was done. At any rate, we do not believe that her life would have been saved even if Dr. Hyrons had been on the doorstep to receive her, instead of between the sheets. But, according to this gentleman's own statements, he seems to have acted injudiciously. He announces that he told the officer that "cases of attempted suicide, when it was a case of simple immersion, had better be taken to the bridewell." ' Now, if he did not desire to refer to the case immediately under notice, this was a most unfortunate observation, and it is no wonder that the officer "assumed that he was referring to that case," instead of recognising that "he was speaking generally." If, full of the enthusiasm and vigour peculiar to early morning, he desired to pose as an instructor apart from the matter in band, and if he did not wish to be misunderstood, it is a pity that he did not select a subject for tuition less germane to that on which the officer's thoughts were naturally concentrated. No mis. conception would, probably, have arisen if he had been satisfied with dwelling on the efficacy of early rising or with pointing out that it was a foolish thing for a child to cry for the moon. But even when he had been misunderstood he did not attempt to put the misunderstanding right. In his own words, "He did not explain to the officer that he was wrong, as he was very surly and in3olent to him, and he did not take the trouble to do so." Is it, then, to be wondered at that the constable hugged the delusion which had been lodged in his mind? Nor, since the heart of a man beats beneath even a policeman's uniform, is it surprising that he felt greatly indignant? It has not been indicated in what his " insolence " consisted, and his alleged " surliness " would appear to have been at least kept in countenance by Dr. Hyron's misplaced hauteur. We hope, then, that the latter will in the future have a little more consideration for the members of the force, and not act in such a way as to lead them and the public to believe all sorts of disagreeable things, affecting the credit of the hospital itself, for which there is no foundation.  SOME time ago a woollen mill was established in Birkenhead, but it did not pay, though it was industriously advertised by Mr. David Maclver, who made it one of his pets, and consequently it had to be closed. But its non-success is no reason why business men should not, at the present time, try to bring at least a portion of the cotton manufacturing industry to this borough and neighbourhood. The location of trade is not decided by mere sentiment, and unless the natural conditions are favourable it would be absurd for us to suppose that we could satisfactorily establish and work cotton mills in this part of the country because the Manchester folk have decided to have a ship canal to their doors, a proceeding which will prove inimical to our interests. But there is good reason to believe that the natural conditions are in our favour, and, consequently, the present is a time when we may advantageously devote ourselves to the consideration of providing these mills. A correspondent to one of the Liverpool papers points out that some time ago there was a cotton mill in Liverpool, and that, though whilst it was a joint stock concern it was a loss, as soon as it fell into private hands it was a decided success. It passes his comprehension why there are not at this moment a score of successful cotton mills in the district of Wallasey. He points out that new factories, with the latest machinery, with coal within cheap supply, and situated at the best cotton port in the country, could not but compete advantageously with the older and less favourably situated factories in the interior. Now, there is a great deal of form) in all this. Anybody acquainted with the district must be aware that there is considerable waste land adjacent to good waterways which would appear to be adapted for the purpose in view, and there can be no doubt that if such mills were established in our midst they would give great stability to our trade and such a stimulus to our development as a community that we should be less subject to those trying fluctuations in trade which sometimes produce such disastrous consequences.