THE POISO-NING TRIAL. [To rah EDITOR OP TILI " SMUT
DH."3 SIR.,—There was one feature of this trial which the newspapers have suppressed or minimized. This element is obscenity. It was proved that the mother habitually used the offensive epithets which one, hears from a drunken costermonger; but the elder daughter, -in writing to her younger and unmarried sister, used words of the most infamous significance, and such as are not commonly heard even among dissolute men. When Counsel was reading one of these letters the Judge stopped him, saying -(in effect), "The next part relates-to physical matters, and -there can be no good in-reading it aloud." The-obscenity 'was more than even an Old Bailey audieneacould'be expected to stomach. It is interesting to know that thesestomen helped to-buts a church, and that the younger ones have been school- teachers, and have instructed-their pupil;' in' the-Gospel. Surety these facts, taken in -conjunction, deserve -careful and practical consideration.—I
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