The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-25 00:00:00

THE PAIVALIINCE OF CHILD MURDER IN

THE METROPOLIS.

A shocking case of murder and mutilation bf a
child at lent a rimathold formed the subject of an inquiry
before Mr. IL Barnes Walthew' the deputy coroner, lest
night at the Orem Maa tavere,Highotreet, Poplar.
James &ammo" said that, ea Sunday last, he found,
is the largo sewer in North-ekset, Poplar, human re-
mains, of the head sad oesophagus of • child.
He called the sad he semehed careful) y about, but
meld BEd so tams of the body. The head had Dot been is
the sewer ea the Satasday aftermos. The body could not
here been in the sewer at ell, or he should have found it.
It scald sot have got oat into the Thames on amorist of an
iron patio&
Dr. Matthew Brownfield maid that the MIMI= in goog-
lies were in a decomposed state. They consisted of the
head and gullet of • child, that must have been from four
to air weeks old. The head bad been severed from the body
with a very sharp knife. There was no jagged edge—the
akin warn cut evenly all round. The gullet had tly
resisted the edge of the knife, and had been roughly torn
up from out the thorax. He was of °pintos that the de-
ceased was • healthy child, and had been wilfully murdered.
I It was, al course, utterly impomible for him to give even a
guess as to the sex of the child.
The Deputy-Oarousr, is summing up, said that the ease
was me of a much more atrocious character than usually
errs under his notice. The child was allowed to live for
a math, and therefore had not been sacrificed man impulse
of shame. No doubt the mutilation seem, as in the
Of11•1101111MIN from admire to facilitate the disposal of the
body, the bulk of which presented an obstacle.
T o jury retrumed • verdict of " Wilful murder against
some pima or penes' usknotra"
Is the West-sod also, hat *nein, Dr. Laukester held
as iuquiry at the Book Tavern, Lissocirove, respecting
the death of a male child, found cm Wednesday last in the
heat garde. of Kr. Thimbey, a medical Lentleinan, at
No. 83, Hainiltaa-terraos, St ohes-wood.
C. Etagere, 3018. mid that deceased was wrapped in a
Lincoln and Stsinforif Mercury, of Oct. 21, 1862. He ow-
mad it to the police
Mr. W. F. Faller, °MI.. said that deceased was a
very same sad folly developed and. It appeared to have
breathed. and might bays bean suffocated is water mos.
distal, after birth. The facet was quite flattened. There
had base such cagiest at birth that death was inevitable
from that MOM alma. He amid not say positively that it
had them drowsed. _ _ _

T e OerTs;ersadoed whether tile polio* bad instituted say
Iss= tett% paresis the ebiki.
Itaprs—No, sir.
• . • •

The Omoser mid that the mime reply wee Dow almost in.
variably gives to snob notations. It really appeared that
the polies had come to roped shad murder as • mottled in-
stitution is the metropolis. It ins intro:ordinary
that a mother, within—es was generally the ease—sir
boon of bet delivery and of the murder of her child,
should be abie to walk through the street. with
the horrible pareel and throw it away in any street, equine,
or public park, without the attention of the police being ever
attracted or their ever being able to discover the slightest
clue to the murderess. Nothing was more clear than that
perpetual impunity would art se • sort of temptation to
murder.

TM jury quite ecemrad is the remarks of the learned
metier. A worded eve teturued—" That deceased died
from waist a/ ateratios at MAIL"

CONSECRATION OF • ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
LE Csiminawmt. —(Pins DAT.)—This moruise a newly
erected Roman catholic church in the Wyndhant-roa
Camberwell, was °Desecrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Grant,
the R.C. bishop of Southwark. The sacred edifice is styled
" The Church of the Sacred Heart." sad entails elitism,
for about 700 or 800 persons. The ceremoey was me-
elected with great pomp, the cruised choir of St. George's
Utthedral landing its assistance no the credos. The Right
Rev. Dv. Morns, Bishop of Troy. preached.
Tax Lora or Et= MArzirry's Slur ORPHEUS.
A public meeting was held at Partamouth on Thursday even-
Mg, owlet the presidency of the mayor. Mr. W. Chambers,
for the purpose of collecting a feed for the relief of the
widows and orphan of than who perished by the wreck of
this ill-fated ship. A committee was formed. and suitable
resolutious proposed for the collection of subscriptions' it
timederstood that the money so collected should be
to the Orpheus Fund Committee, the result of the
meeting reeently held for the same purpose by naval oltkore
and others concocted with the meal and military services,
under the presidency of Vioe-Adtniral Sir R. Seymour,
X. 0.8., at the Royal' Naval College, her lbjesty's Dock-
yard, Portsmouth. A strong feeling exists that the widows
sad orphans left by such sudden camalties as the lase of
her Majesty's ships Orpheus, Birkenhead, and Avenger
Area mows the required aesistance from some maimed
metros, and not be permitted to domed epos load and
privets aid.
THR Rsrorzo FOSSIL MAN or ABREVILLL—The
samed discovery of • fossil human jaw at Abbeville has
boss the subject of • communkatioe to the Royal Society,
and at the primed momeat it is ezeities interest in the
miestilte drain of both Recited sad France. Having
• couple 11 of days at Abbeville with M. Boucher de
rearttegs deftly itemising all the mreurastances of the ease,
and having been entrusted by him with some of the sped-
mem, wide! ere now here, D. Falconer is in • position to
throw NOM light on the subject. His inference is that a
I very clever imporitioe his beets practised by the lova&
siery el the Abbeville gravel pits—" so cunningly clever that
it maid not have been surpassed by • committee of anthro-
Ma meeting • practical joke. The maladies •of the
men was probably accideetal ; but it is not a little
that a jaw combinio se marry peculiarities should
have been hit upon by eaindroeted workmen. The break
down is this eperions sees is eo wise affect. the value of
the real evidenee, now well established, but it inculcates •
pave lemon of cantios..