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The reelection of Baron de Rothschild for the City of London was not uncontested; for on Saturday night Lord John Manners accepted an invi- tation to come forward to oppose the election of a Jew by offering himself. On Monday the nomination took place. The muster of Members of Par- liament at the Guildhall was more considerable than that of great mercan- tile men. Mr. Rothschild was supported by Mr. Raikes Currie, Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. Osborne, the O'Gorman Mahon, and several other gentlemen of the House of Commons; Lord John Man- ners, by the Marquis of Granby, Alderman Thompson, Mr. J. B. Hope, Mr. Thomas Baring, with Mr. George Frederick Young, and other persons of civic influence. The attendance of the Livery was very numerous, and great interest was manifested in the procedings: so far as partisanship was concerned, Mr. Rothschild's supporters in the crowd seem to have been im- mensely preponderant. Mr. Raikes Currie proposed to his brother electors, Lionel Rothschild, as a fit and proper person to represent them in the Commons House of Parlia- ment.

They, the peaceable citizens of London, were met together to throw down the gauntlet, and to pledge themselves all to all and each to the other, to contest by every constitutional means the great and sacred principle of religious liberty, and never to abandon the contest till they had won the victory. "And, gentlemen, who doubts the victory? who dares to doubt it? Gentlemen, we know that in this very spot—almost within these very precincts, age after age, men hated, and tormented, and burnt each other, thinking that they did God service because they differed in their mode of worshiping our common Father from those they so per- secuted. Those dark times rolled on, and at length a voice was heard declaring that conscience should be free. The men who had burnt and persecuted each other were not doing—as they thought perchance they were—God's work, but were doing the Devil's work. From the moment when that voice went forth among the nation, the cause of Bigotry was silenced. It is most true, most painfully true, that she has fought her ground inch by inch for centuries; but the life is now nearly oat of her, and we are here called together by her last expiring kick." (Cheers.) And why should they succeed? "Because, thank God, when any great moral troth is oncelaunched forth into the world, it can never die. It is inextinguish- able and irrepressible. R has immortal life within it, and goes forth conquering and to conquer. You may aid its progress, it is true, bat it aids you more. It is pwing and progressing while you are sleeping, and will grow and progress until it encompasses and subdues the world." (Cheers.) Did some shallow sophist ask him, " Where's the persecution? Have we tortured Baron Rothschild, mulct him, or shut up his synagogue? "—" No, out 11 your votes, my Lords—(Groans and hisses—" Do away with 'em! ")—you have closed up against him that path of honourable ambition which by the esteem, the confidence, the universal re- spect of his fellow citizens, was but for your interference opened to Baron Rothschild." He spoke with a respect which he felt for the House of Lords, not Wishing to circumscribe their undoubted constitutional tights, or to displace one feather of the splendid plumage that waves above them; but he did hope the ma- jority among them would ere long reflect that the pleasures of persecution, great as they might be, could possibly be purchased attoo dear a price. But depend on it, that no great deliberative assembly ever persisted long in opposing a verdict given by the common sense of mankind. He had been long enough in Parliament, sometimes fighting in minorities of 20 and 30—minorities which were then scoffed at—to know that all those great measures which have been carried from time to time have been scrambled fur by rival candidates, and have made the fame of statesmen who founded their claim to distinction in the first instance by opposing them. Mr. Currie thought they were indebted to Lord John Manners for coining out at the last moment; for a walk over is a very slack affair. He had long witnessed that young nobleman's exertions as "a most accomplished gentleman of the Young England party—(Laugkter, and a voice—" But that won't do here r)—or, as it is sometimes, and perhaps appropriately called, the White Waistcoat party— (Loud cheers from the body of the meeting, and some expressions of disapproval from the gentlemen surrounding Lord John Manners)—a party consisting of, I believe, some eight or ten benevolent individuals who kindly wish to bring back =ell:meal institutions into Great Britain in the nineteenth century. Gentlemen, you are aware that it was the custom of the sages of antiquity to embody in some one pithy sentence the wisdom of a lifetime—a sort of concentrated essence of sagacity, to be carried in the waistcoat-pocket. Fortunately for us the electors of London, the noble Lord, in imitation of those ancient wise men, has adopted this wise course; and accordingly we find his political opinions embalmed in a poetical and ever-to-be-remembered couplet—a couplet, I am sure, which must command your admiration for the poetical talent it displays, if it does not enlist your sympathies for the sentiment it expresses. (Cheers, laughter, cries of " Oh! " and much conlitsion.) Listen, I beseech you to listen while I read it- " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die.

But save us still our old nobility.'

(Mach laughter.) I am not the advocate of electioneering devices—for banners, flags, and that sort of display; but hem is a sentiment which I am sure you will agree with me deserves a banner. Inscribe it, in Gothic characters, over the door of the noble Lords committee-room. It cannot but do a great deal for him; in- deed I am by no means sure that it will not do for him altogether." (Renewed laughter, and great cheering.)

Mr. John Dillon seconded the nomination.

When Mr. Thomas Baring came to the front of the hustings to propose Lord John Manners, some of Lord John's supporters raised a cheer; but thereupon such a counter-demonstration was raised and maintained, that Mr. Baring was fain simply to nominate, and withdraw. Alderman Sir Peter Laurie seconded the nomination, and strove for some time to obtain a hearing; but he also was shouted down, and at last abruptly retired.

Baron de Rothschild was received with immense applause, maintained for some minutes.

He came before them, he said, after an interval of two years from that election by which they decided that in electing a representative it is not necessary to test a man's religious creed before you intrust him with great public duties. (Cheering.) They were again met to vindicate and promote the principles they themselves were the first to advocate. He believed the House of Lords to be actuated by the best possible motives ; but had it not always been seen that a de- termined demonstration of public opinion was necessary before any great measure could be carried, and that if strong convictions in favour of any particular prin- ciple were found prevalent among the people, such convictions and wishes and determinations must be manifested many times before they could win assent from all the constituted authorities? The Lords have presented that check on the precipitate expression of popular feeling which a high authority had a few nights since declared it was their privilege to exercise. "It remains for us to show that it was no hastily-formed opinion, by reiterating former votes, and by reasserting the principles upon which I had the honour to be returned as your representative. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, knowing that our common desire is just and rea- sonable, that our mode of proceeding is constitutional and safe, and that truth and justice are on our side, I come forward respectfully, but confidently, to claim your suffrages."

Lord John Manners was received with groans and derisive shouts; and his efforts to obtain a hearing provoked but increased din and tumult. Mr. Sheriff Finnis obtained a moment's silence for him, but only a moment, and such a Babel confusion of sounds was again raised that no word could be heard by the reporters who sat close to him. Baron de Rothschild be- sought, as a personal favour, that his supporters would give a hearing to an opponent for whose private character and virtues he had the highest respect. Lord John Manners then proceeded, amidst "the most astounding noise." He was " understood to say," that he came forward, not as the advocate of intolerance, or the opponent of any class, but as the vindicator of the law, as the maintainer of the indefeasible privileges of the Upper House of Parliament, and the asserter of the right of every branch of English industry to be encouraged by the Imperial Legislature. " If the present were an ordinary occasion, I should not have been induced to appear at this meeting, because the sentiments of private regard I entertain for my honourable opponent would have prevented me from crossing his path; bat I felt it was absolutely necessary at this great crisis that the gauntlet which he has thrown down should be taken up by somebody, in order that the great and important constituency of the City of London should have the option given to them of choosing between a candidate who calls on you to throw yourself into collision with the Legislature of the laud, and one who, like me, invites you to respect the decisions of our Legislature, and at the same time to exercise in a practical manner the franchise you enjoy." (Continued uproar, hisses, stamping of feet, and groans.) " Are you, the advocates of religious freedom, and the persevering sticklers for the conscientious exercise of freedom of opinion, prepared to deny to that great deliberative assembly, which from time immemorial has ful- filled the highest functions of our Legislature, the right of exercising their free and unfettered judgment in matters of the utmost importance? (Redoubled clamour, and cries of "Away with the Rouse of Lords! ") Are you prepared to fly in the face of their conscientious convictions, and to attempt to beard and overthrow them? Are you prepared to demand that fifty new Peers should be created in order to overbear these conscientious convictions? Are you prepared, year after year, and session after session, to enter upon this barren strife, and to force ou this vain clamour for the concession of privileges to my honourable opponent, which are also withheld—and I say it without disparagement or discour- tesy to him—from many men, nay, from whole classes, equally well entitled to it. I say, then, that if my honourable opponent be returned, he is incapable of ea- ting in the House of Commons. But I will go farther, and say that my honourable opponent professes political opinions which this great commercial community will no longer hesitate to repudiate. • (Great confusion.) The prin- ciple of patronizing foreign industry at the expense of the English labourer—the principle of raising fifty millions of taxes from a population forced to compete with the protected labourers of all other countries—the principle of perpetuating the vexations excise of the country, and of maintaining, or perhaps doubling, the obnoxious Income-tax—the principle of setting aside the experience of ages, and the practice of all other countries, for the sake of an unintelligible and incongruous theory." (The interruption was again renewed, and almost compelled the speaker to desist. He resumed.) " We are called a practical people; and yet, three years ago, we were induced to adopt a system of free imports, in the hope that our example, being speedily followed by other countries, would lead. to a general system of free trade. How, I ask you, has this hope been realized? Look around you- . Let observation, with extensive view,

Survey mankind from China to Pent'—

and you will End that no country has displayed any symptom of following your example or realizing your expectations. ((Tremendous uproar.) I will no longer attempt to make my feeble voice heard in spite of the clamour of those who IRV this hall, and who seem to have attended for the purpose of shouting me down; but I will content myself with saying, that I take my leave of you with a clear conscience, and a full determination to fight this battle out—to maintain the principles I profess, and to give to the electors of this great city an opportunity of recording their votes in favour of the principle of maintaining intact the great in- stitutions of this country—to promote the interests of native industry, and to foster, conserve, perpetuate, and extend the glory of imperial England." On a show of hands, the choice was in favour of Baron Rothschild, ape parently in the proportion of 99 to 1; and a poll was demanded. for. Lord. John Manners.

The election-booths were opened at eight on Tuesday morning, and were instantly crowded with vetoes. Among the voters a protest against Baron de Rothschild's eligibility as a candidate was actively circulated: it was signed by two City solicitors, and formally notified that Mr. ,Reths- child had been guilty of bribery and treating at the election of 1847; that he did not profess the " true faith of a Christian," and was therefore in- capable of taking the oaths and serving; that he was a Government.' contractor; and that therefore the votes for him would be thrown away. The Sheriffs refused to allow this protest; and Mr. Rothschild's friends instantly obtained an opinion from Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., that it was nugatory and ought not to be regarded; a counter-opinion which they circulated throughout London, and in the voting-booths. The Coniereti- tire party did not publish a state of the poll. By the lists of the Roths- child party, the votes at nine o'clock appear to have been 609 to 135 in favour of the Baron; at noon, 3,571 to 1,892; and at the close of the poll, 6,619 to 3,104. The candidates appeared on the hustings exactly as the poll closed, but each retired without speaking—fatigued to silence. Mr. Alderman Salomans stated that Baron Rothschild was really so much ex- cited and overpowered at the victory he had achieved, that it might prove of serious consequence to him were he, in the present state of his health, to attempt to give utterance to his grateful feelings: his friends had therefore thought it more advisable that he should have one night's interval and a few hours rest before he addressed them.

On Wednesday, the Sheriffs declared the state of the poll as officially summed up: the votes were—

For Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, citizen '6,017 For Lord John Manners, citizen 2,814 Majority 3,203 "The Sheriffs do therefore declare that Lionel Nathan Baron de Rothschild has been duly elected one of the representatives of the City of London."

Baron Rothschild's name was, of course, immensely cheered. Lord John Manners's name was also much cheered ; many of his opponents being in good- humour at their own success, and pleased with his polished courtesies du- ring the contest. The candidates addressed the,electors. Baron de Rothschild would not attempt to express his personal feelings, but he congratulated his political friends on the glorious victory they had won mot in support of the Jew, the man of different religion from themselves, but in sup- port of the rights and privileges of the constituency of London. He honestly as- sured them, that in many booths gentlemen who told him their votes would on ordinary occasions be against him, had stated they Voted for him simply to support the constituency and the candidate chosen by it at the last election. Theo, 1,700 voters bad been erased from the register since the last election, who formerly voted for him: so that to make up his present majority he must have received at least 1,200 new votes. He felt sure that if his friends had not so early felt certain of victory, he should have polled between 9,000 and 10000. "This election was to prove and to test public opinion ; it was to see if the opinion which you expressed at the last election was an opinion too precipitately formed, and one which you did not now wish to confirm. It was an election in which we were to have had a great and a glorious demonstration of public opinion. Well, gentlemen, and have we not had such a demonstration?" (Cheers and cries of Yes; and so we will again!" to which the Baron replied, "I hope not so' soon.") "I am happy to have seen so many noble Lords in the City yesterday and the day before; and I hope and trust that they will convey to their friends and relations in the House of Lords the spirit and the opinions which now prevail in this, great city. I hope and trust that we shall have some Macaalay,or other great man to write yesterday in the noblest page of the history. of England. I am confident that noble Lords will pay due attention to this demonstration of public. opinion; and I hope and trust that I shall not have to call upon you again for some time to come, to claim another demonstration of the same sentiments and feelings that were exhibited yesterday. But if such should not be case, I will boldly and firmly say, that I, as an individual, will not hesitate to use every con- stitutional means in my power to accomplish the object which we have all so much at heart." (Cheers.) He was happy once more to state in public, what he had often stated in private, of his opponent. " I have had the happiness to enjoy his friendship for many years, and of knowing him intimately; and I can honestly au, that a more truly amiable nobleman, and gentleman does not exist; and I can only hope that our friendship will continue to be the same after this election as it has been till now."

Lord John Manners, when at last his voice was allowed to be heard, said that be need not apologize for the fact that 2,814 citizens, uncanvassed and unsolicited, had registered their votes for the principles which he inefficiently defended. He gave those voters his heartfelt thanks; and what was more, he assured them that on a future occasion there will be no shrinking, but that it is the firm de- termination again to maintain the principles and to defend the cause which has now suffered a temporary defeat. (Shouts of disapprobation, intermingled with cheers.) "It was charged against me by an honourable gentleman who proposed my honourable friend and opponent, that eight years ago, when a very young man, I published some rather absurd poetry. (Cheers and laughter.) Gentle- men, I should have thought that the votes and speeches and conduct of a man who for six not uneventful years has taken his fair share of public debate in the House of Commons, would be a much fairer criterion and test of his qualifications to represent a great constituency. It seemed to the honourable gentleman, how- ever, that it would be a safer teat to select from poems written when almost a boy—safer, at least, if the purpose were to disqualify and to vilify. Gentlemen, I say that I have not the least inclination to dissent from that criticism: there is no one word he uttered in condemnation of the sentiment, in which I do not heartily coincide. I know that tray poetry is in itself very indifferent, and that the sentiment which it contains is still worse ; and I now take leave of the sub- ject, assuring the honourable gentleman that bid as may be the peetry, worse as may be the sentiment, I had rather be the boy who eight years ago wrote the poetry than the grey-headed man who the day before yester- day, for party purposes, called it from oblivion." (Cheers used uproar.) Heartily acknowledging and reciprocating the sentiments which his opponents had been kind enough to express—thanking his friends for their magnanimous app- port, and his foes for the good-humour, moderation, and courtesy with which they exercised their opposition—he retired with a prophesy. " The Remus had one word for a poetand rprophet. Now, gentlemen, you have decided that in the former capacity I am 'not-likely to achieve much' reputation: but allow ens to take my leave of you expressing my conviction that in the latter capacity I shall have more success. The principles which are down to day will be up to. morrow—(" Never, never! ")—and at the general election, come when it may those principles, and that great Tory cause of Church, Queen, and People, will he vindicated and will be triumphant, not perhaps in my person, but among the great and opulent citizens of this eminent city."

A special Court of Common Council was held on 'Thursday, " to eeh. sider the propriety of purchasing estates and waste lands in Ireland, with view to cultivate and improve the same, so as to benefit Ireland and give eMploymetit to its people' and at the same time secure to the Corporation a return of the capital to he invested, with interest, and to adopt such men. sw-es thereon as the Court may deem expedient." A letter was read from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to the Lord Mayor, expressing " the feel- ings of satisfaction, he could almost say of delight, with which he read the report of s meeting held on Friday last at the Mansionhouse under the auspices of his Lordship." Lord Clarendon would not recommend the in- -vestment of English capital in- the manner contemplated, did he not con- scientiously believe it would be remunerative. He thought such an investment could not fail to be profitable: "the moment is eminently pre_ pitious for the undertaking, because political excitement is at an end, agrarian outrage consequent upon the competition for land is now very rare, and the only anxiety of the people is to obtain employment, or the means of emigrating." The malt minute and accurate information on Any matter connected with, land, population, and local expenditure, ex- ists in. Dublin, and should be placed at the disposal of the Corporation Committee. The assistance of every official person in Dublin should be freely given, and no effort, of his own-should be wanting iti the furtherance of a project which he hoped was about to be realized by the Corporation of London. On the motion of Mr. D. W. Wire, it was resolved to appoint a Ward Committee to inquire and report on the whole subject. Such a Committee was accordingly appointed; consisting of the Lord Mayor, four- teen Aldermen, and twenty-nine Common Councillors.

The parishioners of St. James's Westminster resolved, at a public meet- ing on Wednesday, that a sum of 5,0001. shall be raised by rate and put at the disposal of the Guardians for building an Infant Orphan Asylum, to obviate the necessity of fanning out the pauper children of the parish.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Saturday, an action was tried between Mr. Strutt, the private solicitor of the Duke of"Buckiakharn, and Mr. Lowndes, the High Sheriff of the county of Buckinghamshire to determine whether or not the latter had made a bon5 fide return ofd" no effects" to a writ of execution issued against the Marquis of Chandos on a bond for 3,0001. The case arose out of the ruin of the Duke of Buckingham's fortunes; and was founded immediately on a transaction in 1847, which was the first formal step in the break-up that ended at the Stowe sale. It appears that in 1847, the Duke of Buckingham, finding his' embarrassments overwhelming, consulted his friends, Lord Brougham, Mr. Brougham, and the Duke of Richmond, on the course he should take. A memorandum of his debts was drawn up, and it was found that they amounted to 1,469,0001. or thereabouts—it was intended to include every debt in this me- morandum. On an estimate of the value of the Duke's own interest in the estates inherited from his father and acquired on his own marriage, it was found that they were insufficient by about 15,0001. of annual value to pay the interest of this. debt. His property was mortgaged to the extent of nearly 1,100,000L, and was charged by judgments to nearly the whole extent of the further debts. But under the same settlements which gave the Duke his life in- terest in these estates, the Marquis of Chandos was entitled to successional interests on the death of his parent, worth some 17,0001. a year. The Marquis of Chandos volunteered to surrender these for ever ; to save his father's honour, he consented to yield up his whole prospect of income in all the property he had in the world. His generous offer was accepted; and, under the advice of the Duke's friends, a deed was prepared whereby the whole of the Buckingham and Chandos estates were conveyed to the Marquis of Chandos in trust for the benefit of the Duke's creditors, whose, names were inserted in a schedule, with-their respective debts. In this schedule, however, there was no mention made of the bond debt of 3,0001., which is the primary cause of the action in question ; and out of this omission, it would seem, there have arise Maenad betweenthe Duke apd the Marquis, which have at last gone to the extent of causing the whole arrangement of 1847, and the deed then prepared, to be chal- lenged as a "legal " fraud, proper to be set aside. Mr. Strutt obtained judgment against the Duke, with his consent, for the 3,0001., and moved the Sheriff to levy the proceeds out of the Duke's late property; but the Sheriff, finding the Marquis in possession as owner in trust, under the deed of 1847, returned that the Duke had no effects; whereupon this action was brought against the Sheriff to try whether the return was bond fide, and whether the deed of 1847 was legally 'valid. In support of the plaintiff's ease, the Duke of Buckingham was placed in the witness-box to prove that no " consideration" had been paid by the Marquis for the transfer of the property ; and that the Duke himself treated the property as his own in 1848. On the other side, Sir Frederick Kelly relied on the nature of the enormous interest which the Marquis has surrendered; and respecting the alleged fraud, upon the nature of the whole transaction— The property was already mortgaged over and over again far beyond Its value ; and such was the state of things in May 1847. The only possibility of paying off the debts was by Use Marquis taking them upon himself without deriving the slightest benefit ; and such was the sad result of the case. It was true that the creditors, owing to the plans adopted by-the Marquis, and the pains he took with the property, might hope eventually to be paid, should he be allowed to set as be had hitherto done. It was true he was left a beggar to the end of his life; but he would have the proud unsafe- tton of redeeming the name of his family. The Marquis had undertaken to act as re- ceiver for half the sum usually allowed; and out of that sum—out of 1,5001. a year which be earned—he gave his father 5001. a year, and 5001 a year he allowed to his mother the Dutchess, retaining only 500/. for himself; which was all he was possessed of. The Dutchess was Indebted for the supply of her necessities to this young ruse, who earned the means of assisting her by acting as receiver under this deed, which was called afrattd! This wits the whole case. He lamented that he should have been obliged to state these family transactions. So far from the transaction being a fraud, it was on the part of the Duke, with one exception, a highly meritorious act, because by this means he provided a fund for the payment of debts lie could not otherwise have paid. The objectionable part was, that he should have permitted his soh, even for so noble and meritorious a purpose, to have made this Irremediable sacrifice. In reply, the Attorney-General anxiously explained, that no moral fraud had been imputed for a moment; the issue raised was upon a technical and legal fraud only. Although he had not the honour of knowing the Marquis of Chandos, he had a perfect right to concur in the observations made by his learned friend; and if he had done otherwise, he should have been departing from the instructions he hid received. He would only repeat what the noble Duke had stated, that the son had done all the father could have wished.

Lord Denman—" And much more."

The Attorney-General—The Dake had been sorry that Mr. Strutt should suffer from an arrangement he had made for the protection of the other creditor".

Sir Fitzroy Kelly was perfectly initialed with the statement of his learned friend.

Lord Denman said he never entertained a doubt that the traastaction was big praiseworthy.

Verdict for the defendant—upholding the deed of 147.

At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, James Clift, a porter in the West London Union, was put upon his trial for assaulting a lunatic m the workhouse. Toe prosecution was at the instance of the Metropolitan Commissioners of La- sser. Clift pleaded " Guilty." It appeared that one Evans had been found ra- ring mad in a coffeehouse; he was taken to the workhouse; it was necessary to pat a strait-waistcoat on him and to strap him down; Clift and others effected this, but not without a violent struggle. When Evans had been overcome, Clift, in the excitement arising from the conflict, struck the lunatic with a rope, and also beat him on the face. The Commissioners felt that it was necessary to show people attending on lunatics that nothing would justify striking the sufferers; but considering Clift's natural excitement at the moment, they did not press for his punishments He was held to bail in his own recognizances, to appear and re- ceive sentence if called upon.

On Tuesday, Sarah Mills, who was charged with conspiring with one Hansel' teextort money from Mr. Bevan, pleaded "Guilty" to the count charging mis- demeanour. Hanseil's trial was postponed, as he was ill. Mills's counsel offered a bumble apology for her offence. That offence was an attempt to extract money from the prosecutor by threats of publishing in the Satirist newspaper charges of immorality against Mr. Bevan. Hansen had control over the journaL The pro- secutor's counsel did not press the count of felony against the, woman; and he re- commended her to mercy, as she seemed to have been the tool of The sentence was six months imprisonment.

John Cork, butler to Mr. Buller, a gentleman living at Enfield, was murdered on Sunday afternoon, by his wife. When Cork entered Mis Buller's service he said he was a single man. His wife and child lived in the City Road. The wo- man had often been outrageously jealous of her husband, but since the birth of the child had been less so. On Sunday afternoon, Cork was surprised by his wife, with her infant, coming to his master's house; only he and the nurse-maid were in the place. After a little time, the nurse-mald, in passing from the kitchen into the pantry, saw the butler lying upon the grotind near the door. She imme- diately exclaimed to the wife, who was standing by his side, intently looking at' him, " Is John in a fit? " The wife replied, in a loud voice, " No; it is some- thing worse than that—I have done it. The maid perceived blood on the man'a shirt; and she immediately alarmed the neighbours. Cork was found to be dying; he had been stabbed over the region of the heart ; a dessert-knife, bloody, was lying in a sink. The wife made no attempt to escape, nor did she utter any" remark about her husband. She was secured and sent to prison: then she denied her guilt. It is said that she was jealous of the nurse-maid.