A despatch from Coleraine, Co. Lon donderry, February 17th, says that Mrs Robert Montague, daughter-in-law of Lord Robert Montague, was committed for trial that morning, on a charge of causing the rleath of her little daughter, Mary Helen Montague, aged three years. Ib seems that the child had been badly used by her governess, in addition to being the object of the hatred of her mocher. In facb, the harsh action of the governess seems to have led up to the tragedy. Later, for some childish escapade on the parb of her charge, she locked the little girl up in a dark room as a punishment, and then informed the mother of the child's offence and the punishment she had meted oub to her. The mother appears to have become so enraged at her little girl's conduct that she resolved to punish Jtar etill more severely. In the dark room,

she tied her arms behind her back, hhe string cutting deeply into the child's tender flesh, and then triced her up by a ring in the wall half-way to the ceiling, and left her so. After being in this posi tion, the child's cries grew fainter and fainter, and then ceased entirely. It was three hours afterwards before anybody thought of going to the dark room in which the little girl was confined, and then the hapless infant was found choked to death. The excitement over this tragedy ran very high in Ulster county. The husband of Mrs Montague is a grandson of the Duke of Manchester, and a former officer in the navy. Mre Montague was of Gentile extrac tion, and the daughter of a wealthy London merchant. Mr Montague, when asked how ib was such severe punishment was adminis tered to their three-year-old child, said : " My wife has strong opinions on the train ing and correction of children. Her theory, which I think to a great extent righb, is that the epirib of disobedience must be conquered from the earliesb years." Montague ad mitted ib was too long to leave a child alone, bub his wife was out parb of tho time the child was Tho murdered child was buried in great privacy. Mrs Montague wae held, February 25fch, for manslaughter in £700 bail. She was also committed on a second count— cruelty to children. 