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THE ROAD MILD MURDER. TROWBRIDGE, OCT. 3. The examination of witnesses on the charge of murder preferred against Elizabeth Gough, late nursemaid in the service of Mr. Kent, Roadhill house, was resumed this morning at 11 o'clock. Sir john W. Awdry, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, presided. The body of the court-room was again crowded by the public, and a number of ladies were accommodated with seats on the bench. Mr. Saunders conducted the prosecution, as be fore • Mr. Ribton appeared for the prisoner ,• and Mr, Edlin watched the case for Mr. Kent and his family. The prisoner paid the same close attention to the evidence which she had done on the two previous days, an d maintained the same calm demeanour which she has exhibited throughout the proceed- jugs. The Chairman said the magistrates had received through the post two letters touching the subject of the inquiry. The writers were not known to the magistrates, bout he thought it right t o su b m it the communications to the inspection of counsel. It transpired during the day that the letters re ferred to conveyed no information respecting the murder, but merely suggested questions to be put to the witnesses. They came from a distance, and it is unnecessary to say that no attention was paid to them. William Saville Kent was the first witness exa. ruined. Ile said—l am the son of Mr. Kent, of On the Roadhill-house, and am 15 years of age. O 29th of June last I was at home for the holidays. The little boy who was murdered was my younger brother. I saw him last alive about 7 in the evening. I went to bed at half-past 10. by myself in I slept a room on the second floor. I occupied the s ame room on the following night. On the Friday night I fell asleep very soon after I got into bed. I did not hear any of my sisters come to the door of my room after I went to bed. I awoke and got up about 7 o'clock. Nothing disturbed me during the night. I am not aware that I awoke at all during the night. Soon after I got up on Saturday morning I heard of m y little brother being missing. I searched about for him. I was sent for Urch, the police officer. After that I was sent to Mr. Parsons, our medical adviser. Mr. Parsons lives at Beckington, two miles from Road. I saw him, and he drove back with me. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—The murdered boy was my half-brother. My own mother is dead. Daniel Oliver—l am a jobbing gardener, and live at Beekington. I occasionally worked at Road hill-house for Mr. Kent. I was there on Friday the 29th of June last. I left at a quarter past 7, with Holcombe, who was examined yesterday. Holcombe locked the garden gate, and Mr. Kent got the key. I returned next morning about a quarter past 6. I saw the boy Alloway as I entered the yard, and afterwards saw Holcombe. About half-past 7 I heard of the little boy being missing. I did not see Mr. Kent drive off in a carriage. I as • sisted in searching about the premises. I saw two men with the body of the child in a blanket. The body was taken into the house and I followed. I saw the nurse in the kitchen. I asked her what time she had seen the child last. She said " About 11 o'clock last night." I asked her when she missed it. She replied, " About 5 o'clock this morning." I asked her what she did then. She replied "I went to s l ee p again." The reason she did that, she said, was be cause she thought Mrs. K en t h a d h ear d th e c hild crying, and had come and taken it away to her own room. I asked her whether Mrs. Kent was in the habit of taking the child away. She answered "No." Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—The dog was kept chained up in the stable-yard during the day. I do not know whether he was let loose at night. If he is turned loose in the yard at night he cannot get out of it unless he jumps over a wall eight or ten feet in height. Supposing him to have been turned loose in the yard, anybody might have passed from the drawing-room window to the privy without attracting his attention. The person would be obliged to pass close to the gate of the yard, but the dog is generally to be found at the other end of the yard. When I went to Roadhill•house on Satur day morning I saw the boy Alloway, and Hol combe, the gardener. I think Alloway was in the shoe-house when I saw him first. I did not notice whether the lower part of the premises had been opened. By the Chairman—A man going from the draw ing-room window, or from the front door to the water closet, would pass within three or four yards of the yard gate. I first saw the nurse in the kitchen. Afterwards I saw her in the flower garden. She was then talking to Holcombe and Alloway. I dis covered some footmarks on the grass on tie lawn. I pointed them out to the nurse. She said there was a policeman in the house. She brought him to me, and I showed him the marks on the lawn. I did not see Mr. Kent and theiprisoner together that morn ing. Mr. Kent came into the garden, but that was after Gough had left it. John Alloway—l am a day labourer, and reside at Beckington. In June last I was in the service of Mr. Kent as assistant gardener and knife cleaner. I did not sleep at Roadhill-house, nor did I get my meals there. I went about 6in the morning, and left when I could. I was there on Friday, the 29th of June. I left about 7in the evening. Holcombe and I came out together. I saw Holcombe locking the garden door. I went straight home. Next morn ing I returned at 6 o'clock. I saw Holcombe, and he told me to go to the greenhouse. After I had done my work there I got the knifebox from the cook. This was about half-past 6. I got the knifebox at its usual place. I turned out the knives on a bench; I did not miss any of them. There was no blood or anything to attract attention on any of them. I did not count how many there were. There were two carving knives. I did not clean the knives that morning ; they were cleaned by Holcombe, in my presence, while I cleaned the boots. During the morning there were footmarks observed on the lawn outside the drawing-room window. Oliver saw them, and he said, " There has been some one here. I explained to - him that they were marks which I myself had made. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—These footmarks were not in a direction leading from the drawing room to the watercloset. By the Chairman—Mr. Kent had a key to the garden gate as well as Holcombe. Mr. Parsons-1 am asurgeon,and reside at BCC ki ington. I have attended the family at the Roadhill house for the last four years. On Saturday, June 30th, I was asked by Master Wm. Kent to accom paay him to his father's house, at Road. He told me what had occurred. I got to Roadhill-house about 9 o'clock in the morning. I was taken round the back way and shown into the library. I was afterwards shown into the laundry. Mr. Kent gave me the key and showed me the door, and I went in by myself. I found the body of the child there wrapped in a blanket. The blanket was covered with stains of blood•and old soil. I did not think there was any great quantity of blood on the blanket itself, though the stains were considerable. There were a nightgown and flannel shirt on the body, They were much stained with blood and soil from the privy. The throat was cut down to the bone. It was a clean cut, and was made from the left to the right. It must have been done in one cut with a very sharp knife with a long blade. I am unable to say from the wound whether it was inflicted with a pointed knife. A considerable quantity of blood had flowed from the wound in the throat. It had flowed from the left angle of the wound down the shoulder to the elbow. I observed the mouth. The tongue was to be seen within the lips, and was of a very dark colour. The lips were also dark and livid. I afterwards found two small incisions on the right hand. This was on my second examination of the body, while waiting for the order from the coroner. The wounds were on the back of the right hand. One was on the back of the first joint of the forefinger; the other was in a line with it. I also found a stab in the left side. It was made through the nightclothes, penetrating the nightgown and shirt, and severing the cartil ages of the sixth and seventh ribs. It penetrated more than half through the chest, and was about •an inch and a half in breadth. These were all the marks of violence I observed. Afterwards I made a Post mortem examination with Mr. Stapleton, of Trowbridge. I found in the stomach slight remains of some farinaceous article of diet, which I supposed the child had eaten for supper the previous evening. I ascertained as far as I could, by smelling the con tents of the stomach, that no laudanum, or other narcotic drug, had been administered to the child. I did not examine the lower part of the bowels. I was told that a pill which I had prescribed had been administered the evening before. I foundo n trace of it in the stomach ; would probably havc passed into the bowels by that time. The pill con sisted of one grain of blue pill end three grains of compound rhubarb. It was an aperient. I prepared it myself. If the pill had been administered be tween 7 and 8 the previous evening I should not expect it to operate under six hours, and very pro bably it might be more—eight or 12 hours. The dark appearance of the mouth showed strong pres• sure on that part for some considerable time—per 'aPs five or 10 minutes—and with a soft substance. The cut in the throat divided two large arteries. At the tim e my impression wa s that the throat was not cut - in th e place where the body was found, be cause I saw no j child. If the h eart e t s of blood on the person of the was beating when the throat w was cut the blood laid have come out from the arteries in jets. It has since occurred to me that probably circulatio n was. stopped by pres sure on the mouth before the cut was made. In that case life might have been almost extin- Tuished, but not quite, before the thr oa t was cut. he heart might tease to beat a few moments before death took place. have no doubt that the stab in the side was done after death. There was no contraction of the parts, and no flow of blood such as would have occurred if the wound had been made before death. It would have required great force to inflict such a wound. The wounds on the hand were very trifling, and in my opinion were done after death. When I first saw the body at 9 o'clock I believed it must have been dead five or six hours at the least. When I entered the house after see- ing the body in the laundry I was shown into the nursery by one of the ladies of the family. This was between 9 and 10 o'clock. I saw the cot in which the child was said to have slept. The bed clothes were perfectly smooth and were folded down in the usual manner. I noticed the depres sion made by the head on the pillow, and that made by the body on the mattress. I could not have folded the bedclothes so neatly without con siderable trouble. I saw the nurse in the room, and she told me the clothes were then in the state in which she had found them. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—l have been examined on previous occasions. I cannot say whether I have to-day added anything to my former statements. My impression is, though I cannot say positively, that the child was first suffocated by pressure on the mouth and then stabbed in the s id e . I think the wound in the chest had nothing to do with the death, but I cannot say positively whether the child was dead when the first wound was inflicted in the throat. The suffocation might not have been carried to the extent of producing death. I was not originally of opinion that the child was suffocated in the tirst iustance but sub sequent reflection has brought me to that conclu sion. I sent the pill to Roadhill-house by a mes senger. I did not see it administered. I found no traces of a narcotic in the stomach, nor did I find any traces of ray own pill. If a narcotic had been administered by mistake it would not necessarily have left any traces behind it ; it would most pro- bably have been absorbed into the system. If the aperient pill had passed from the stomach into the lower bowels it would not necessarily have operated immediately. I should think the dark appearances about the mouth could not be attri buted to any other cause than pressure. If a nar cotic which would be a proper dose for an adult had been administered by mistake to the child, I do not think it would have produced the appear ances about the mouth. When I examined the cot in the nursery the lady who went upstairs with me was in the room as well as the nurse. Ido not know whether other persons had examined the cot before me. I cannot say positively whether it was the nurse who first told me that the clothes were then in the state in which she found them ; but I am certain that she did tell me so. When the clothes were shown to me the bed was not partially uncovered. By the Chairman—My opinion is that the cut in the throat was made after pulsation had ceased. I have no doubt that there was pressure on the mouth, but I cannot say positively that it was car ried to the extent of death. It must have been greater than any that could have arisen simply from the clothes lying over the mouth. Considerable violence must have been used. The severance of the muscles of the throat might account for the pro trusion of the tongue, but that would not change my opinion as to the cause of death. Here the examination of the witness terminated, but he expressed a wish to be allowed, before leav ing the box, to make a statement, which he said might affect the prisoner as well as Mr. Kent. Mr. Saunders—l do not know what Mr. Parsons has in his mind, but I am not, as a general rule, disposed to encourage or recommend extra state ments by witnesses. The Chairman—There is a peculiarity in our position at the present moment, for we are not only trying an issue in which the young person at the bar is deeply interested, but we are also inquiring generally into all the circumstances connected with this melancholy affair. Perhaps the best plan would be for Mr. Parsons to communicate with the soli citor for the prosecution, whose duty it will be, in the exercise of his professional discretion, to say whether Mr. Parsons should be permitted to make any further statement. Mr. Ribton—From the notoriety which this case has obtained, and the extraordinary interest which it has excited in the public mind, I am unwilling, on the part of my client, that anything should go forth which might not be admissible as evidence against her. At the same time, however, I have no 1 lobjection that Mr. Parsons should be allowed to put his statement in writing, and to communicate it privately to the magistrates. lam certain that the statement, whatever it may be, will not have any inttuenee li i .. eh,. m;,,ig of the magistrates, unless they see that it is directly relevant to the Pa:bent, ) inquiry. Mr. Saunders—l think the suggestion of my learned friend is a reasonable one, and I heartily concur in it. The Chairman—Whatever bearing the statement may have upon the present case, it may be found useful in any further inquiry in which it may be our.duty to engage. Mr. Edlin—On the part of Mr. Kent, I have not the slightest objection to the publication of any thing which Mr. Parsons or any other person may have to say. , Hereupon Mr. Parsons wrote something on a small slip of paper and placed it on the bench before the magistrates. After glancing at it for a moment, the Chairman handed it down to the counsel, stating that he did not think it con tained anything calculated tolead to further inquiry. In that opinion both Mr. Saunders and Mr. Ftibton, after reading the note, expressed their entire con currence, and Mr. Parsons was accordingly told that he might leave the box. Captain Samuel Meredith—l am chief constable of the Wilts County Constabulary. On the Ist of August last, I believe it was, 1 went to Roadhill house with Mr. Superintendent Wolfe. On that occasion we were shown into the nursery, and saw the nurse there. I desired her to show me the cot in which the little child had slept. I asked her to describe how she had left the child. By the Chairman—At the time I was collecting evidence generally. There was no charge against the prisoner then. Examination continued by Mr. Saunders. She described the bedclothes as having been tucked in by her on the night of the murder, and she then described how she found the clothes when she missed the boy in the morning. She said the sheet and counterpane were turned twice down, so as to come below the centre of the bed, and that was the state of them when I saw them. It was quite :m -possible to see whether there was a blanket between the sheet and counterpane. If a blanket had been withdrawn from between the sheet and counterpane, as I saw them, the clothes must have been adjusted , afterwards. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—l swore the in for mation upon which the warrant was issued. It was not at the suggestion of any one. I was present at nearly te.o a r l the hT I ehyei watchingnqu prisoner irie s ht b ha y Mr. de casen o one S fo l r a ck. Mr. whiamt cahtinm . g K rt. en hKe t ec t ta at es f ha i no r uns her. ques tions which were put by M r. Sl ac k , an d th ey were not answered. It was between 2 and 3 o'clock when the nurse showed me the clothes in the nursery, as the state in which she found them. She did not tell me that they had never been re moved. I took no part nor did any of the county police force in the proceedings against Miss Con stance Kent. I know that the prisoner was fully questioned as to her antecedents, and where she lived before she came to Mr. Kent's. Inquiries have been made, and it has been found that the statements she made were correct. The Chairman said he was informed by one of the magistrates who had taken an active part in this investigation, that the an tecedents of this young woman were ascertained to be highly respectable. Witness continued—The proceedings against Miss Constance were not taken at my instance or by my advice. Mr. Saunders and Mr. Ribton concurred that it would be unnecessary to call Mr. Stapleton, the other medical man who made the post mortem examination of the body. Mary Amelia Kent, a little girl five years of age, was here brought into court by Miss Elizabeth Kent. The poor little thing seemed very much frightened, and her sister said she hardly thought she would be able to state anything. The Chairman asked whether she understood the nature of an oath ? Miss Elizabeth Kent replied that she did not think her sister did. Mr. Edlin said if the magistrates insisted upon examining this little thing the responsibility would be upon them. The Chairman said if the bench were of opinion that it was proper to examine the child, they would not shrink from the responsibility. MrS a e u r n o d o e m r s with stated i‘ t i h r . a t e t n h d i s Mrs.littl e Kentgirl thein the sam night of the murder, and in the course of the in quiry which had been instituted it had been thought desirable to ascertain whether she w as i n a situa tion to give evidence, but some difficulties had been thrown in the way by Mr. Kent's legal adviser. The Chairman said, that whether it wore a mere vague possibility that the child could give evi dence, or it was merely desired to exhaust all the inmates of the house, he did not know. Mr. Edlin must beg leave, on behalf of this poor afflicted family, to crave the attention of the bench for one moment. He was positively informed that this little girl had been taken kindly on Mr. Slack's lap and questioned by him. Mr. Slack, he believed, asked tier if she knew where she would go if she did not speak the truth, putting the question in stronger terms than he (Mr. Edlin) had done, and he understood that Mr. Slack, seeing that the child was too young and too much agitated to answer any questions, with great good feeling, had not pressed her examination. When, therefore, it was said that obstacles had been thrown in the way of her examination, he was sorry to have to give the statement a most positive denial. The Chairman said that, as a question merely as to whether the child could give evidence in this particular case he saw no reason to presume that she would be able to make any statement relevant to it, inasmuch as she was not likely to be aware of any essential facts. Under these circumstances, if those engaged in bringing the truth before the ma gistrates felt that he ought to press it, he should not shrink from the responsibility. Mr. Slack said that, after what Mr. Edlin had stated, he felt it due to himself to say that the facts were very different from the representations made by the learned counsel. It was desired to examine this little girl, but Mr. Dunn, the legal adviser of Mr. Kent, objected. He (Mr. Slack) nevertheless did ask her a few questions, which she answered not very satisfactorily. He then said to her, "Do you know what will become of you if you die after telling a falsehood ?" Her answer was, " I should go to hell." Thinking then that she might be ex amined he expressed a desire to put further ques tions to her, but Mr. Dunn took upon himself de• liberatelyto refuse that she should be subjected to any examination. Mr. Edlin was sorry that Mr. Dunn was not pre sent, as he might possibly give some explanation. The little child was then carried from the Court. Miss Elizabeth Kent, in reply to Mr. Saunders, said—On Saturday night, the 30th of Jane, I slept with Mrs. Kent, in her bedroom. Mary Ann and Constance slept in our room above Mrs. Kent's room ; the nurse slept, I believe, in the same room with the cook and housemaid. Sarah Kerslake, the cook, was recalled, and stated that on the Saturday night she and the housemaid and nurse slept together. • Did not re member at what time the nurse came to bed. The housemaid and witness went upstairs about 11 o'clock, and the nurse came up soon afterwards. Cross-examined—l don't know where Mrs. Kent was when I went to bed. The nurse usually attended Mrs. Kent when she went to bed. Miss Elizabeth Kent, recalled, stated that on the Saturday night she and Mrs. Kent went to bed at the same time ; she rather thought the nurse assisted to undress Mrs. Kent's child ; she gener ally did. Did not know whether the other servants had gone to bed at that time ' • they generally went to bed before Mr. and Mrs. Kent. Alfred Urch recalled—When I went to Road hill house on the Saturday morning I saw Mr. Kent drive off ; it was then about 8 o'clock. I was shown into the drawing-room ; I looked for foot marks there directly 1 went in, but could not see any. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—l don't know that a great many persons had been in the room before I got there. Sarah Cox recalled—l, have tried to place the shutters in the position they were found in the drawing-room on the morning of the murder from the outside this morning, but could Rot do it, the wind was so rough. Cross• examined by Mr. Ribton—Yesterday morn ing I did it without any difficulty. By the Chairman—l don't know whether the nurse usually left her door ajar till Mrs. Kent came up to bed. Superintendent Wolfe stated that the wind was not the preventative of performing the experiment with the shutters this morning. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—When I made the experiment of kneeling in the prisoner's bed to see if I could see into the cot, the prisoner was not present. Re-examined—This morning I had a child placed in the cot, and Mrs. Dallimore made the experi ment of kneeling on the bed. Mr. Ribton said the same objection applied. The prisoner was not present when the experiment was made. Mrs. Kent recalled, in reply to the Chairman, stated that the door of the nursery was left ajar by her orders, in order that the nurse might hear if the little girl who slept in her room should cry before she came up to bed. There with nothing, therefore, unusual in its being left open on the night of the murder. By Mr. Ribton—The nurse assisted in undressing me nearly every night. I think it very likely that she did on the Saturday night after the murder; that would have been after the other servants had gone to bed. Eliza Dallimore—My husband is an officer in the - urn+. enmity Pollee. on 41 -' -"----- "` R `"" --- day, the 30th of June, I went to Roadhill-house for the purpose of examining the female inmates of the house. I went up to the nursery, and went in with the nurse. In opening the door I found it made a little noise. any one accustomed to the door by opening it with care might do it without making any noise, but a stranger could not. I said, " Well, nurse, this is a very shocking thing about the poor child," and she - said "It is." I said, " Can you give any account of it, do you think ?" She said, " I got up about five o'clock and missed the child from the cot, and I laid down again." I said, " Why did you lay down again after missing the little boy ?" She said, " I thought he must be with his mamma, as he generally goes in there in the morning." She said, " This is done through jealousy; the little boy goes into his mamma's room and tells every thing." I said, "No one would murder a child for doing such a thing as that, would they ?" I said, " Who do you think would do it, nurse ?" She said, " I really can't tell." She undressed herself, and r went out of the room till she had finished. That is all I remember that she said at that time ; she made several observations about the murder. I examined the other female inmates of the house. I also examined the night dresses of the young ladies, including that of Miss Constance. I found nothing whatever suspicious about any of them. After doing this I went down into the kitchen ; the nurse came in several times while I was there. The nightdress of Miss Con stance, like those of the other ladies, appeared to have been worn about a week. When 1 was in the kitchen I said, " This is a shocking thing ; I think the whole house is responsible for the child." The nurse, who was present, told me that the little boy had not been very well, and that she had given him some medicine on the day of the murder. A person named Fricker came to the kitchen door, and the nurse turned round and said, " What have yoti been doing, Flicker ?" He said, " I have been opening the water-closet. The nurse said, " Have you found anything ?" He said, " No." "Nor you won't," the nurse said. Nothing was said at that time about the finding of a knife. On Monday, the 9th of July, the nurse was brought by Superinten dent Foley in a trap to my house, to remain with me for a little time. I spoke to her several times about the child. I asked, " Who could you think has murdered the child ?" She said, "I don't know." I think some one must have secreted himself in the house." 1 told her I did not think any one was secreted in the house, and asked how they could get in. " I don't know anything about it ; I can't say," she replied. During the week I said, " The cot being folded down as it was, I don't think any one could have taken out the blanket." She said it was a small blanket, and could be slided out underneath. I told her I thought it was impossible for any one to have taken the child out and have left the bed in that position. I said it was quite impossible for one person to have done the murder. I said, looking at the size of the child, it was impossible for any person to have tucked in s g i h t after t w iatsabout the clothes with the child in his arms. She said, a Is the:n found iss it, '' Constance. murder. " I don't know about that, but I did not touch the k e e tdo She hheersraseveral if she cot t ti h m o thought I slpaoks don't think Miss Constanee could have done it." I asked her what she thought of Master William, with Miss Constance, havingdone said, " Master Willi am is more fit for a girl than a boy." I told the nurse she did not seem to sleep very well, and she said she slept more soundly than usual on the night o f th e murder because y h she had more work to do that day. I a s k e d her ow it was she did not hear b d any o y come into her room. She said they might have put something to her nose and caused her to have slept soundly. I asked her if she thought Mr. Kent did the murder. She said "No ; I could not think for a moment that he did it, for he is too fond of his children." I asked her where she found the child's clothes on the morning, and she replied, " Oh, where do you think I found them, but where I put them ?" I was shown a piece of flannel by Mr. Foley at Road hill-house on the day of the murder. Since then it has been washed. • In consequence of instructions from Mr. Foley I took this chest-flannel to Road hill-house. I do not think it was made for a chest flannel ; it appears to have been made out of the back of some other garment, but I believe it has been used by a woman for the protection of her chest. It was on the 9th of August I took this flannel to Roadhill-house. The nurse came down several times and asked me what I was doing there, I said, "A gentleman will tell me what I have to do before I leave." Mr. Foley came into the kitchen and told me to try the flannel on the cook, housemaid, and the nurse: I did so ; the piece of flannel was not wide enough for the chest of either the cook or housemaid. On my proceed ing to try the flannel on the nurse she said, "It is of nouse, even if it fits me • that is no reason why I should have d one the ' murder." She did not hesitate to take off her • things. I tried the flannel on her, and said, "You see, nurse, the flannel ex actly fits you, which it did not the others." She 'reheated that that was no reason Why she did the murder, and said the flannel might fit others as well as her. I said, " That is true ;it fits me, and might fit a great many others, but they were not in the house at the time of the murder. I went to Road hill House this morning with Superintendent Wolfe I went into the nurses bedroom there with Mrs. Kent. I saw a cot and a bed there. I got upon the bed and knelt upon it, and looked across to the I cot. Mrs. Kent brought her little child into the room, and it was put into the cot and covered up with the bedclothes in the usual way. Kneeling up in the bed I could not see the child. I could only see a small portion of the pillow. The side of the cot is open canework, but is faced with some thing inside which prevented the child from being I seen through it. I saw the blanket with which the little child was covered; it is 11 yard in length and 1 yard in width ; it would not allow much to be tucked in at the side, but it is quite enough to be tucked in at the bottom of the cot. By the Chairman—When I went to try on the chest- flannel at Road-hill House none of the women servants worse such an article. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—l did not take down in writing any of the lengthened conversa tions I had with the prisoner. Mr. Slack examined me last week. That was the first time I mentioned these conversations with the prisoner. I told the magistrates the result of nay experiments with the chest-flannel before the prisoner left Road for her father's house on the 27th of August; but 1 did not say anything to them about the conversations. I was not asked about them, and I did not think it worth while to speak of them unasked. It was after the inquiry into Miss Constance's case that I fitted the flannel on the prisoner. The flannel has been cut out of some old garment, and I do not think it was made for the chest. The Chairman said it struck him that nothing that came from the prisoner's room could add to the un doubted fact that the child himself came from it. The piece of flannel would be good evidence against anybody else,butit could not be evidence against the person from whose room the child was confessedly taken. Mr. Ribton was much obliged for the suggestion from the Bench, and would not further pursue the matter ; but he might state that he was told the prisoner had never worn a flannel in her life.—[To the Witness—These things are generally worn by elderly ladies, are they not P] Witness—Oh no, by young ladies as well as old ladies. I wear one myself. (Laughter.) Mr. Ribton—l shall not take the liberty of ask ing you your age ma'am. (Renewed laughter.) Witness continued—When I looked at the cot this morning I was on my knees in the bed. It was the youngest child which was put in the cot. I do not know whether it was younger than the boy who was murdered. Superintendent Woolfe—On the Ist of August I was shown by the prisoner the position of the cot and her own bed. When I went to Road to-day I found the cot and the bed in precisely the same position. I myself put the clothes in the same state in which the nurse told me she found them on the morning after the murder. Mr. Clark, clerk to the magistrates, produced the deposition of the prisoner taken before the magis trates at Road on the 9th of July, on the occasion of the general inquiry into the circumstances of the murder. At the request of Mr. Ribton, Mr. Kent was recalled, and stated that on the 9th of July, while being examined before the ma gistrates at Road, he said, " I believe some one well acquainted with the child' mad the house, or some discharged servant, must have murdered the child. I know that a discharged servant of mine has used expressions of revenge against the chil dren." Mr. Ribton—l shall not ask the name of that per son. My object is not to throw suspicion upon any individual, but to show that the expressions of the prisoner, "Oh ! it is revenge," and "Oh ! it is jealousy," may have had some ground, however unfounded, in the circumstances of the family. Witness continued—A discharged servant called my children " horrid children," particularly refer ring to the little boy, and when she left, a few days before the end of the month, she vowed vengeance against the children and threatened myself ; but I do not recollect the precise words. The Chairman—The magistrates have made in quiries respecting this person, and have found that she was not in the neighbourhood at the time the murder was committed. Mr, Clark produced another statement made by the prisoner on the 13th of July, and one made on oath when Miss Constance Kent was charged . Tke contents of these depositions have already 1-tann xml,lishp,l in The 41113,, and embrace nothing which has not been elicited in the course of the present inquiry, Mr. Saunders—This is the case for the prosecu tion. _ .. —... The proceedings were then adjourned until to morrow, when Mr. Ribton will address the magis• trates for the prisoner. THE CHILD MURDER AT BOW. • Yesterday, at three o'clock, Mr. Humphreys, coroner for the eastern division of Middlesex, and the jury resumed, at the Spread Eagle Tavern, Homerton, the inquest (adjourned from Wednesday week) on the body of the child, Augustus Padfield, the supposed mother of which, Emma Padfield, is now in custody, charged with being concerned in its murder at a place near Lea-bridge. The prisoner was present at the sitting of the Court on Wednes day week, but not yesterday. No cause was assigned for her absence. _ _ Mr. G. Lewis attended for the young man, Fre derick Bryant, whose name has been frequently mentioned in connection with the matter; Mr. G. Vann appeared for the prisoner, and Mr. Shorter on behalf of the local vestry. The witnesses Mary Padfield, George Allen, and Elizabeth Miller were examined in succession, and repeated substantially the evidence they gave on Tuesday at the Worship-street Police-court, and which was reported at length in yesterday's Sun. Ellen Webster (a new witness) said—l live at No. 1, Lea-bridge, and am the wife of William Thomas Webster, a labourer. I recollect a young woman named Padfield being confined at Mrs. Mead's, Hammond's-cottages. I met her after she had left there, on a Wednesday or a Thursday, in the Back lane, Clapton. She crossed over the way to me, and asked how Mrs. Mead was. I said Mrs. Mead was in a great deal of confusion. She asked what about. I said they had found the dead body of a child down the watercloset, with the left arm off. She said she was going down to Mrs. Mead's. She asked what the time was. I said I did not know. She then said she was going to meet her mistress at half past five ; that she (Padfield) had come from Brighton, and was about to return there., I said to her, " I thought your baby was down in the country ?" She said it was, and that it was doing well. She said " Good bye ; I shall see you again." She was then coming towards Clapton, and when we parted she went in that di rection. I did not see her again. By Mr. Shorter—l gave information to the police after I had seen her. The body of the child had been found on the morning of that day. Mrs. Mcad was recalled, and stated, in answer to the coroner, that Emma Padfield did not come to her house on the day the child was found, nor afterwards. A surgeon's certificate was put in to the effect that Mrs. Drake, in whose service the prisoner was when taken into custody, was suffering from an attack of bronchitis, and was unable to attend to give evidence. Frederick Bryant, of 6, Holloway-place, Isling ton, was called and said, in answer to questions put chiefly by the coroner, and in addition to the evidence given by him at the police-court, that he had written to Emma Padfield while she was at Mrs. Mead's, remitting her money. He declined at first, on the advice of his solicitor, to say for what purpose he sent the money, but afterwards, on ad vice from the same quarter, said he remitted it to assist her. She had applied to him for money per sonally and by letter. He remitted it by Post office order. (Shown a letter addressed to the pri soner, dated July 23, 1860.) He admitted that to be in his handwriting. He could not say whether he gave her a sovereign referred to in that letter. He saw her after writting that letter, and, as he had re quested her to do so, she produced to him a doctor's certificate of the birth of a child. The certificate stated that it was her child. (Shown another letter, undated, addressed to the prisoner.) That was in his handwriting. Emma Padfield first came to live at his father's house as a servant in Nov. 1858. He had not known her before. He did not see her on the 27th of August last ; he saw her on the 17th of August, and that was the last time he saw her. She never told him, either personally or by letter, that she had sent her child into the country. At the request of Mr. Vann, the solicitor for the prisoner, the letter of the 23d of July, written by the witness to her, was put in and read. It was same signed w ith th e fi c titi ous nam e o f Thomas Wright, and req ues t e d h er t o mee t hi m in the Liverpool road on th e nex t F r id a y at 9 o'clock, when he would give her £1 if she would bring the doctor's certificate, but not without. Another letter bear ing the m tfoorthil was ae putsignature, prisoner, and enclosing her a post-office order in. undated, from the witness By Mr. Shorter—He did not know why the child was registered in his name ; he never gave the slightest authority to the prisoner to make use of his name. Dr. Gay, senior surgeon of the Great Northern Hospital, related in some detail the results of any examination he had made of the body of the de ceased, and gave it as his opinion that the child did not die of any natural disease, but of suffocation. Referring to the amputation of the left arm, he said it had been taken off about an inch below the joint; an attempt had been made to take it off by the shoulder, but had failed, and it appeared afterwards to have been separated from the body by fracture of the bone. The skin appeared to have been cut with a tolerably sharp instrument, though the edges were jagged. It was possible, he added, that the suffocation might have been produced by drowning. The Coroner carefully summed up the evidence, and the jury, after deliberating with closed doors about half-an-hoar returnd a verdict of " Wilful Murder, against Emma Padfield." TILE DOUBLE MURDER AT ALDER SHOTT. An inquest was held on Tuesday at the Queen, Aldershott, before Mr. Thomas Pain, coroner, touch- ing the deaths of Sergeant Owen Chipp and Corpo ral Cole, who w ere deliberately shot in the barrack room on Saturday afternoon, by private James Johnson, a native of the north of Ireland. The ser- geant was from Reading, where his relatives now reside ; and the corporal came from Chalgrove, near Oxford. He has two brothers now in the regiment (41st), and Chipp has also a brother, who is hospi- tal sergeant atAldershott. The jury being sworn, and the Coroner having addressed them, The first witness was private John Mulchay,who said—l knew Owen Chipp, a lance sergeant. I was with him in the barrack room on the 29th Septem- ber, at about a quarter past 2 in the afternoon, in No. 19 room. Corporal Cole, of the same regiment, and Sergeant Chipp were sitting at the table, play ing a game of backgammon. I was standing on the left side of Corporal Cole, and private Wm. Sutcliffe was between me and Cole. There were other soldiers in the room, and James Johnson, a private in the same regiment, was there, too,cleaning his rifle,while the game was going on. I watched the game, and did not notice anything particular until I heard the report of a rifle. I then saw Sergeant Chipp jump up from the form and make a grasp at the rifle in Johnson's hand, saying at the same time, " You villain, you have shot me." The prisoner said no thing. Corporal Cole also got up, and cried, "My God, lam shot." The two deceased had been sit ting opposite to each other at the table, which is not quite two feet wide. The prisoner had the rifle against his hip. I caught hold of Johnson, but as the men fell down and said nothing more, I let go of him and ran for the regimental doctor, who came in about 10 minutes. Both of the men were then lying dead on the floor, and the prisoner had been taken into custody. I have had no conversation with Johnson since. In the morning, about 7 o'clock, the prisoner was ordered to clean the grate. As he was not doing it to Sergeant Chipp's liking, he said he would put him in the guard-room. The colour-sergeant said, " Don't do that; make him do the grate." He was using a dirty brush, taken out of the coal-box. The prisoner said he would rather be put in the guard-room than be threatened to be put there. Sergeant Chipp then ordered him to put down the brush, and told two men to take him to the guard-room. I didn't see him after that till about 11 o'clock, when he left the guard-room and came to his own room. He had been before the colonel of the regiment, and he told me he had got 12 days' extra drill. He was cleaning his straps for drill at 2 o'clock, but because it was Saturday there was no extra drill that day. I saw him clean ing his rifle outside, but I did not see him clean the inside of it. He was out on Friday with another company at ball practice. We always keep 20 rounds of ammunition in our pouches. The prisoner slept in the same room, and kept his pouch there. I saw Adjutant King examine the prisoner's pouch, and there were 20 rounds in it. A jaryman here asked if it were possible for a man to have a ball left after being at ball practice. The witness said it would be known if he did not fire. Another juryman asked if Sergeant Chipp was an arbitrary man; and the witness said he was so sometimes in barracks. Private William Sutcliffe said,—On the afternoon of Saturday last I was in the barrack-room with Owen Chipp between 1 and 2 o'clock. Corporal Cole was there, and the sergeant and he were play ing a game of backgammon. James Johnson was there, but I did not notice what he was doing. I was leaning with my arms on the table watching the game. I heard nothing till the report of a gun, and then I felt the splash of blood all over my face. I got up, when I found myself unhurt, and saw ~ fi r,, nit ehipp wheel abut and seize the rifle in the prisoners hand, and he made use of the words, " You villain, you have shot me," Prisoner did not reply. At the same time Corporal Coie put his hand to his breast and exclaimed " My God, I am shot !" I said, " Private Morley, take the rifle from the prisoner's hand." I hastened round the table and seized the prisoner. I told him he had shot Sergeant Chipp and Corporal Cole. The prisoner said he didn't intend shooting Corporal Cole or any other man. With the assistance of two men I took him to the guard-room. The witness then corro borated the evidence of the preceding witness re specting the grate. A juryman asked this witness if Sergeant Chipp was severe or mild with the men, and the reply was— _ _ Sometimes he was rough with the men. I don't think the prisoner could have done the grate better with the brush. In my opinion prisoner was sober. The Prisoner—Was I standing behind Sergeant Chipp or by my bed ? Witness—You were standing between the two cots, behind the sergeant, when I heard the report. Private William Cox, 41st Regiment, said-1 saw the prisoner on Saturday morning last at the hos pital, waiting to be inspected before going to drill. He said, " I'll have some one's life before night if I get punished for this crime." He was talking to the other prisoners then. I saw him going to the guard-room after the men were shot, and he then said he did not mean to shoot Corporal Cole, but he meant it for Sergeant Chipp. The Prisoner—Who was in conversation with me when you heard me use those words Witness—You were speaking to the other prisoners, but I did not notice to which of them in particular. Sergeant Costeno was then sworn. He said—l was not in the room when the men were shot, but heard of it, and I ran from the sergeant's mess and went across directly, and there saw Chipp and Cole lying dead. The prisoner was then in custody. I looked in the direction the bullet had gone, and found a mark on the wall • and after the bullet had hit the wall it struck a rifle stock and broke it. I stooped down and found the bullet close to where it hit the wall. It is an Enfield rifle ball, and the same sort as we use. I gave the bullet to Major Bligh. The bullet now shown me is the same. Sergeant Penny said—On the morning of the 28th the prisoner was served with 10 rounds of am munition, and when he came home from ball prac tice he ought to have had three rounds, as we only fired seven. Corporal Cole brought the returns to me, showing that the men had fired seven rounds each. It was the prisoner's duty to keep these balls until next ball firing. By a Juryman—lt came on wet, so they could not fire away all their balls. I searched the pri soner's pouch, and found that there was only one ball left, and that was in his haversack. The other ball has not been found. Frederick Abbott, Assistant-Surgeon to the 41st, said—Between 1 and 2 on Saturday last Private Mulchay came rushing up to my room, and told me that two men had been shot in the barrack-room. I went to the room, and saw Corporal Cole lying dead; and I also saw Sergeant Chipp lying on his back, quite dead. I made an external examination, and found in the back of the sergeant a small hole, evidently made by a bullet, in the right side of the back, near the fifth rib ; a corresponding hole was in front of the body. The ball had passed through the body, and death had resulted from hemorrhage. Theliody of the corporal had also been shot through in a similar manner, except that the ball had entered the front and gone out at the back. This being the whole of the evidence intended to be produced, the Coroner addressed the pri soner with the usual caution, after which the pri soner said, "That morning I was put into the guard-room by the deceased. I had no ill feeling against him, neither did I make use of the expres sions about shooting him or any other man. I was scaled' by the colonel, and when I came back I went to my barrack-room and threw off my tunic, and went to the canteen and had some ale there. I went to my room again and took down my pack, and began to clean my things. I got ready for marching order parade, and when ready I did no more till after dinner time. When I had my dinner I took my rifle out of the rack, as I wanted to have it well cleaned. When I had done so, and while I was half-cocking the piece—there had been a cap on it—unfortunately it went off. As soon as I heard the sound of the piece deceased got off the form and said he was shot. I knew not at the time, I was so much thunderstruck, whether I was shot or no. I didn't know how the piece was loaded. I remem ber being out at ball practice the day befo re, and that Iha not fired all my ammunition. Mr. Ken nedy, the rifle instructor, said that every man who had fired his ammunition was not to l oad again on account of not seeing the target. I loaded my piece, not heeding his words, and took home my piece loaded, Through being in a hurry for p ack p arade, I did not notice that the piece was loaded at the time I was cleaning it. The above defence caused a necessity for other THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1860 evidence, and Superintendent Howard called other witnesses, the first of whom was Philip Kennedy, the bugleman, who said—On Saturday morning I was on duty outside the guardroom, and I heard the prisoner say, " I'll make the --'s head bleed before night." I didn't notice whether Private Cox L was there. I didn't hear the deceased's name men- tioned at all. By the prisoner—Yon were not talking to any one in particular at the tine. It was when you were coming out of the guard•rom2 after being scaled. Prisoner (to witness)—You e wer said nothing worse than that. Police-constable Cox said—l took prisoner into custody on the 29th, about half-past 2 o'clock. He was in the cell at the guard-room. I sajd to him , " You stand charged with the wilful ntuirder of Sergeant Chipp and Corporal Cole." lie tu:ned his back and said noth in g . I told him I musttah-o him to the police-station, but he made no answer. I went to the barrack-room and found his rit - ;4! against the wall where Sergeant Chipp was lying. It had been recently fired. The cap was still on it, and there were marks of blood near the lock. It was numbered 862. Private James Walsh said—l was one of the escort who took the prisoner to the guard-room after Sergeant Chipp was shut. In the room at the barrack he said " Boys, don't touch me ; it was not intended to harm either of ye, nor Corporal Cole ; it was only for the one." He didn't say for whom. Prisoner--I never spoke in the room at ail. Witness—l didn't hear him say anything going to the guard-room. I must have heard him had he spoken. Private Alexander Meen said—l was one of the escort. I heard the prisoner say he didn't mean any harm to Corporal Cole or any other man. I didn't hear him say " only for the other one." I didn't hear him say any more. I didn't see Private Cox on the way to the guard-room. The witnesses Walsh and Meen were called by the prisoner, but their statements only tended to confirm the belief in his guilt. Private Sohn Morley said—l was in the barrack room on Saturday when the men were shot. I took the rifle away from the prisoner. I was leaning on the table while the two deceased were playing draughts. I heard the report and saw the prisoner standing between the cot and Sergeant Chipp's right hand. I took the rifle, but lot it fall between Ser geant Chipp's legs. The prisoner said " You need not fear me, I didn't mean to do you any harm nor the corporal ; only the sergeant." There were about eight more in the room. I had hold of him by the collar then. He said he was sorry that he shot the corporal. Sutcliffe and Walsh were there at the time. By the Prisoner—You were standing between the cot and Sergeant Chipp, and had the rifle in this position (against his hip horizontally). This being the whole of the case, the Coroner went through the evidence, and in doing so he reminded the jury that neither at the time of the shocking occurrence nor at the time of his arrest did the pri soner once assert that the deed was the result of an accident. On the contrary, he said enough to induce the belief that the act was premeditated, and the plea had only been made since his arrest. The room was then cleared, and after a short time a verdict of wilful murder was unanimously returned. The inquiry lasted from 11 till 3. The jury after wards assembled to hear the reading of the evidence in the case of the corporal, after which a verdict of wilful murder was again returned. While the inquest was going on the funeral took place, and hundreds of military men and civilians including the regiment, were present. THE COMMERCIAL TREATY WITII FRANCE. The Commercial Treaty with France, almo: forgotten amid the turmoil of Italian politics, once more makes its appearance, and stands like a factory chimney seen in the distance through the smoke of a battle. The long negotiations are now drawing to a close, and we are about to enter into that trading millennium for which the Manchester school is more enthusiastic than Manchester itself. The Illoniteur publishes the first part of the new Tariff. It applies entirely to metals the produce of the United Kingdom. Napoleon, though desir ous, it is said, to carry out the principles of Free Trade with all countries, contents himself for the present with performing the conditions of the Treaty and permitting the entrance of English goods. The Tariff is certainly a great improvement on the old one. It was in the department of metals that the spirit of prohibition most completely reigned in France. The Governments of the last 40 years seem to have imagined that national greatness de pended in some manner on the number and skill of the workers in iron. England was rich through her coal and her metals. England wished to supplant the manufactures of every other country. It was necessary to prevent the French foundries from beingruined, and a branch of trade being taken away from France which was necessary for tie defence of the country. So we have had in two generations a system of Custom-house regu lations more worthy of Japan or Paraguay than of the most enlightened Continental Power. Almost every kind of manufactured article in iron, steel, or brass was burdened with duties which placed it be yond the reach of the French consumer. Steel, even in an unmanufactured state, paid until within the last few years a duty which entirely prevented the public.from being supplied with the best material from abroad. What a French knife or a French pair of scissors are we need not remind our readers. It has often excited the wonder of the intelligent tra vellers that a people should go on year after year using such implements when a neighbouring coun try was ready to supply them with the best in the world, and it is still stranger that this should pro ceed not from ignorance, but from financial perver sity. In fact, cutlery is one of the articles that has been totally prohibited in France. Like the pirated edition of a copyright work, a packet of knives might be seized at the outports and confis cated in spite of any offers on the part of those who were desirous of having an implement that would cut. Cutlery, however, now comes in at a moderate duty ; iron ore enters free ; the duties on cast iron and steel in bars is reduced by one-half; but per haps the most important change is the admission at a moderate duty of objects manufacturel of cast iron, which were formerly prohibited. In every department of industry or household economy such objects are of the first necessity, and the factory of the millionaire as well as the cottage of the peasant has hitherto paid its tax to the monopolists of the French iron-foundries in the shape of exorbitant prices for inferior goods. The tariff came into operation on the Ist of the present month. In 1864 a still further reduction takes place, and though even the French will be far from free trade in iron there can be no doubt that the corn forts of the people will be very largely enhanced and other branches of industry invigorated by the cheapening of objects of such necessity. These changes are certainly of the greatest moment to France. The timidity of the French as traders has been long proverbial. Though at all times as much desirous of gain as any Englishman or American, though patent and industrious, though possessed of great manufacturing skill, of exquisite taste, and a happy faculty of imitation, yet until lately they have remained poor because they lacked the one requisite of mercantile cou rage. Instead of launching out into the great ocean of enterprise they crept timidly along the coast, putting into port at every ruffle of the sur face. The coolness with which an Englishman will stake his all on some bold venture which is to bring him a large profit, :and will eat, drink, and be merry in the meantime, is even now unknown to our neighbours • but their more u nreasonable fears they are gradually ' overcoming. If the present Em. peror is to have the glory of inaugurating free trade, it will beibecause the increase of business, the efforts of an active school of political economists, and the decay of ancient prejudices make it possible. Louis Philippe could not have done it. Had his cha racter been as daring as that of his successor, had ho exercised equal supremacy over his country men, he must have shrunk from outraging the feel ings of a nation who firmly believed a liberal tariff to be the ruin of France and the exaltation of Eng land. We must not, however, suppose that the battle is already won, and that France is about to adopt in their integrity those maxims of finance which have already triumphed here. The treaty between the two countries was a bargain, by which the French have gained great advantages. Our ports have been o p e ned to their most important productions t e c oh h e f r l d o w l r sB i 6no oft and gainers by j ust b een should ei e t rp h sap e t eebad t ys a a s bn t t e yths e f t h o ot r efr ' Cat wth r y e ao n n- F t ssi i r r p r a ei h n i e E c n egx7, tariff c w hu Pe l l as be publishedis part of a bar gain in which we have given val ua bl e considera tion. Though simplified and reduced, the duties are still considerable ; and that the increasing industry t m o f muFrance r erequires r a e n d approph to free trade in iron, which is, after coal, the great agent in modern production. To obtain the coal and iron of England is b ecom ing a necessity for our neighbours, and long have even without treaty they would probably before made been astute importa n t mo di f i cations. But they h ave astute to make us pay them for doing what it was their own interest to do. France has removed her prohibitions and reduced her duties as far as is pea sible without raising a storm among the monopo lists ; but for this she has received in exchange con cessions which she will no doubt turn to good use. When, th e unc ertainty papa gloom and unc away from Europe it is probable that an increase of trade between the two countries will follow the adoption of the new tariffs. Much, however, will depend on the French Government. The wide mar gin which the Empero r has reserved to himself places it his power to ope n an y b ranc h of trade, or to keep it almost as much clmed as before. Mr. Cobden tells us that all is progressing favourably, and we trust that the apprehensions of the com mercial community on this score are unfounded. This country has made many sacrifices in this business, giving a certain price for an uncertain benefit, and what is perhaps of most importance, surrendering the principle of free trade by con cluding a treaty of reciprocity. To give a foreign power the right of interfering in our financial ar rangements and forbidding us to place import duties where we please is a divergence from the laws of political economy which should at least be justified by great expectations of advantage. COUNTRY MARKETS. SIIEFFIELD—OcT. 2. At to-day's market te supply of old wheat was small ; but generally of infetior qua new in greater a 11indanhce, An improvement of is per load took lity. Business chit: l . - o il,. old and new wheat. Grinding place in the price of ::' improved. Oats in moderate barley scarce, and slirr;:tlY • Red wheat, per load of 3 imp'cn: supply, at full rates. InfCrio•" flourlld per 141 b dearer. White ...26s Od to 27s 6d 11 bushels...2ss Od to 26s Od . • .. .24s Od to 26s Od New red „ New white „ Beans ~ •••._ ...25s Od to 26s Od ..19s 6d to 21s 6d 48s Od to 52s Od Peas, per qr • . ..•• . 33s Od to 35s Od Grinding barley, p er qr - ''lss Od to 44s Od Malting ditto, ~ .4 Oats Millers' prices for flour-2s sd, is '''' ' 4''''l su i 141 b. Od2s toB3d4s per Od HULL—OcT. 2. At our market to-day there was a moderate attendance, with a small supply of English wheat, which varied se much in condition that it was difficult to ascertain the value. Old English and foreign wheat sold at 2s to 3s above former quotations, with a fair demand. Oats, beans, Li nse ed cake and peas at fully late rates , w ith a ready sale. Barley s carce, at about is advance on last Tues da y . (Hull made) steady. Wheat.... Old white per q r. 640 Od to 672 04 Old red New white .. 2 , New red .... „ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 62s Od to Dutch, Belgian, and French 6os Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red 6os Od to 6•25 Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 52s Od to 6.5 s Od E ng li s h malting 3Bs Od to 43s Od Barley.... Grinding Saal and Oderbruck 38s Od to 40s Od Holstein and Danis h Oats Grinding .................. 32s Od to 345 Od English, old . ............. 26s Od to 305 Od Archangel and Riga / per et.. Os 14d to 140 Friesland and Dutch. ....... 0514 3 / 4 d to 0215 d. Swedish and Danish ......... osl4d to osl4d Beans English, old, per qr .... 485 Od to 505 Od New pigeon New tick. 0 0 a d t t o o 4 4.5 4 es Od 0d Egyptian 33s Od to 40 s Od P ea s Foreign breakers Grinding Tares .. Spring Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing ad t ttt o to 5 2 s 553 5 4 8682 0: 0 ,00 1 Li n seed cakes (Hull) Foreign BlO oto 9 15 0 0 0 Rape cakes 5lO o to 5 Bones LYNN _OCT. 2. A fair supply of now wheat to-day, most of which was out of condition, and prices for good fresh qualities were 2s per qr above former rates. Old hi slow demand, and ls to 2s higher. New barley 38 s to 435, according to quality. Oats and beans limited, and 6d to is up. Old white 63 s to 67s Old red.. . I New white.. ..... 54 s to 61s New red.... .. 55s to 56s ,KET—OCT. 3. the close of the market•) Walls End. BRISTOL SUGAR—Our, 3 . The offices have been but indifferently, supplied with samples this week, especially of good refining kinds, which are invery good demand, and late prices are fully supported. There is very little inquiry for grocery sorts, and rates are with difficulty supported. In rum t he demand hag Inueh improved lately, and a fair business has been done in wards at is per gallon dearer. d Bra ddyll' c Hetton.. .. 18 a. Kelloe South Hart1ep001...... 18 Whitworth ........... 16 6 South lietton ..... . • .19 6 Hetton ........19 6 Haswell . ....... 19 6 K e ip e r Grange... • .. 18 3 Thorpe .. 18 9 hough Hall 18 6 Fratnwellgate lB 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting 22 6 t, 54; sold, 43. COAL MA: (Itioes of Coal per Ton at s. d. Bate's West Hartley..ls 9 Craghead Hart1ey.....1 5 0 Eden Main ..18 0 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Howard's West Hart l6 3 ley Hastings Hartley ...,16 3 Walls End. Gosforth l7 9 South Durham 18 0 West Hetton ..18 6 North Hartlepool 16 3 Ships at markel THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon and Mauritius (via South -19. ampton)Do. (vi ..................Oc t. ares) Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds ......Oct. 5. Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, & G. .. Oct. 5. Bahamas and Havana (via New. York) Sept. Canada, &c. (via Galway) Oct. 5. Cape of Good Hope, &c. Oct. I. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Oct. 1.: Do. (via Marseilles) Overdue. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Oct. 2. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Oct. 2. Do. (via Marseilles) Overdue. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. • • Oct. 10. Do. (via Marseilles) • • • • Oct. 4 . Lisbon .. • • • • • • .. Oct. 1. Cuba and Mexico • • Sept. 28. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton):.. Oct. 2. Do. (via Marseilles) .. Sept. Vigo, and Oporto .. • • .. .. Oct. 1. United States, C a lif or nia, &c. Oct. 3. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe • • Overdue. West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c, Oct. 15. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Wed nesday, Oct. 3.—Admissions on payment, 3,613; ditto, by season tickets, 753; total visitors, 4,366. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The following extraordinary CMS without medicine of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, soustipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption, and debility, effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, are not the Jeast remarkable :—Case No. 54,816. From the Roy. James T. Campbell, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenhain, Norfolk : " G en tl emen , I have long k no wn and appreciated the virtues of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. In all cases of indigestion, and particularly w h e n the liver is affected, I consider it the best of all remedies. JAS. T. CAMPBELL." Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate a.ncl pence per day, saves 50 times its cost in. a p n er c re ex tu p a e t n e ee d m is a e y as b e e s ; a v t o h i d e i e r d a b n y n o u y s a i n n g c e D , u disappointmßarry'senta, which, at a few other remedies, removing effectually, without purging, constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew 'Lire, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wu/7er, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let i n valids avoid the fearful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretence s. Nevill's imitations are prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Heoper Nevill and hts agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly falso. No canister is n g eg en en u t inz r w ee it t h , o in ut fui th l e , e n n a t m be e a ß ea a i r a ry nd D w u ra ß p a p rz t i e ss d t rb i n s. l a a l ir l ae. o s; t e h in e 2t r s and dopCkoeep7e74 who attempt imposition in one article must lbela2rri2Psaa. g c ; k B e 2f d irlebe i . n 4oon t s i tins s receiptl,' l l b b e . 0 21 f 2s Post-office s . a t ; -office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Rw expect t n o 2dl b b2 e .4 d 4lba i s : t canisters n s . gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co.; Abbis o 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150, Ox' ford-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and Co, tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street. City ;at 127, Hi g h H o lb orn ; and grocers BIRTHS. HADPIELD.—On the 2d inst. at Woolwich, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel H a dfi e ld, R.AI , of a daughter. Maitland, of a M E A ' till x A i) the . O w n i fe th o e f 3 t o h t e h aßev jt. L oug hton Rectory, daughter. SMITH.—On the 2d inst., at 14, Ashley - place , S .W., the wife of Archibald Smith, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barris ter-at-law, of a son. MARRIAGES. APPLEFORD—DAVIS.—On the 2d inst., at Lewisham Church, the Rev. Wm. Apploford, Assistant Chaplain to the Government Convict Establishment, Wakefield, to Mary Jane, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Davis, Ordinary of Newgate. JEAFFRESON—ECCLES.—On the 2d inst., at St. Sepulchre's, John Cord Jeaffreson, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, barrister at-law, to Arabella Ellen, only surviving daughter of the late Wm. Eccles, Esq., F.R.C.S. DEATHS. CUNNINGIIAM.—On the 23d ult., at Elleray Bank, Win dermere, George Godfrey Cunningham, Esq., aged 58. CRELLIN.—On tho Ist inst., at Forest-hill, Sydenham, Frederic Crellin, Esq., surgeon, R.N., aged 59. • DA LTON.—On the 2d inst., at Bury St. Edmund's W. D a lton, Esq., aged 03 . , H Es p.—On the 28th alt ~ at Sca r b orough, John Hesp, Esq., solicitor, aged 69. JENK/N s.—On the 2d inst., at Brompt on , near Chatham. Fanny Rose, youngest child of Colonel Richard Jenkyns, aged 13. ROBINSON. —On the 2d inst., Thomas Robinson, Esq., of Vauxhall, aged 83. SEWELL.—On the Ist inst , at Betchton House, county of Chester, George Sewell, Esq., aged 70. WROTTESLEY.--011 the 29th Sept., at Clifton, near Bris tol, Julia, Dowager Lady Wrottesley, widow of John first Lord Wrottesley, aged 78. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YDIJN(4, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Jffiee, No. 112 strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county 341441 umit Thuretisy, October 4, 1860,