Case 2. The wife of an agricultural labourer, in the parish of I— was in the habit of going to work in the fields, and leaving her children without fire or food from morning till night, and if on her return she found them crying or murmuring, she would flog and send them to bed supperless. One of the poor children was attacked by the measles, and although the eruption had partially made its appearance, she carried it to the field where she worked, laid the child under a fence, as it was too ill to sit up, and there it continued the whole day, part of the time exposed to a fog off the German ocean, which rendered the surrounding atmosphere cold, moist and insalubrious. Returning homewards in the evening with her child, she observed it was getting worse, and two or three hours after, she asked a neighbour to come and see it, which she did, and advised the mother to send immediately for the parish surgeon. He promptly attended, but gave no hopes for its long surviving, as it was labouring under acute inflammation of the lungs, and in a few hours after his opinion was verified, for the child expired. Some days elapsed before an inquest was held over the deceased. The parish surgeon deposed the child died from inflammation of the lungs, following the measles. On being asked whether he did not think death was accelerated, owing to the child being exposed to cold, he said “No! on the contrary, I consider it beneficial.” In this instance, the medical gentleman was requested by the coroner to re-consider his statement, as he had always understood by checking such eruptions, they were liable to be fatal—but the parish surgeon would not retract, and the coroner rested satisfied, by merely reprimanding and cautioning the woman to take better care of her children. Thus was inhumanity shielded in its career; as if the life of a child might be sacrificed with impunity.