The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-04 00:00:00

TEE EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY IN
WHITECHAPIL CHURCH.

LATEST PARTICULAREL—(THIS DAY.)
The result of the inquiries instituted by the u
polies authorities, with respect to the startling discovery of si
geese coffins and dead bodies concealed between the roof M
and the ceiling of Whileohapel Church. has allayed al
all apprehensions that the child:es had been murdered. 14
The general impression is the neighbourhood was that the
children bed met with foul play, sad the most intense ex-
citement noes in oeseneence of groans of parsons &seem-
Wag in the street, sad openly convening of " the murder
of the babies is the church."
The Mink three of which are whole, are made of heli-
um& dad, painted bleak, sad present the essearesoe of
rededy-coestrnatal boxes nether thee of replier cafes, and
they are of the same character is those commonly
need by undert►kee for the disposal of still-bore
children. Seven of the bodies are reduced to mars
fragments avid dust, but the skulls are small, though ,
singular to state three of them are covered with encrusted
blood. Two of the bodies that are entire were manifestly
those of still-bore children, and that of the third, though
it pomibly ma► not have been still-bore, prements no marks
of external violence.

The intense, arrived at is that the bodies were thole of ga
stall-born children, or perhaps of some that had died from
salami einem ld had bees deposited between the
eesling and the roof of the church for the purpose of saving
the burial fees which had been paid by the parents, and
which were consequently embezzled. It is understood that gi
a aloe has been obtained as to the guilty parties, but at -
present it would be comodered premature to art upon it. 11
The singular circumstance that must of the edam and
the bodies had been broken up into small fragments is es- g
phsined by the sappesitioe that they were dropped frees an ki
opening in the square cash tower down into the roof, and 111
were smashed by the fall.
The ■appearance presented by the shocking pile of remains .9
aticrt deposited in a sort of closet in the church is
in the extreme. and conveys an idea of g
the wholesale some os which the disgusting trade was car- 111
tied ou. The Map is four feet high and is composed of
children's skulls, legs with the tined and shrivelled flesh
hanging from them, intermingled with little beads dead- g
cated until they have acquired the leek of bids' claws, and v
the fragments of enfant, dust, napkins, and infects' caps. s
The vicar of the perish, it is understood, desires that the
whole cireams6.-- -is should be investagated before the
but it is doubtful whether inquests

WritSiTarissourt as oath, is doubtful whew...
ean be held epos the Wire of ebildrea of which either
artifice*. of death tea* it is said, procured, or which
wire sealfeetly still-been. Proceedings will no donbi. be
adopted fa say awe spinet the individuals who have been
guilty of this atrocious ihmecatioe of a religious edifice.

BARN= GREAT CATTLE FAIR.— (TIM ;
This, the largest mart for the sale of cattle, homes, MA U
stock in general, around the metropolis, was opened this •
morning at an early hour, and before 8 o'clock, several •
sales bad bean effected. The supply of Prime
beasts was more numerous than that exhibited
last September, and the quality far superior. g
The demand for well fed oxen exceeded the supply,
and long price were obtained for several droves of Scots
beast The attendance of farmers, graziers, and sittle-
,deilers from the neighbouring counties, arid of butchers,
'dairyman, sod cattle salesmen from the metropolis, was ex-
c=ly 1111010[0[111. There was no lack of sharpers, who sue-
in victimising several "pees 'um." The following
gems may be quoted, viz. :—Well-fed oxen sad steers.
Prose 181. to 281. ; bullocks, for fattening, 141. to 181. ;
heifers, spayed and fat, 201. to 254 ; ditto in calf, 181. to
20/. ; mulch cows, 181. to 221. ; ditto with calves by their
sides, 704 to 271. The home market was wall supplied,
and several foreign buyers purchased largely at prices
varying according to the description of the animals. For
cab hones sad machines poerslly there was little demand,
but waggoa bonds and those Et for agricultural purposes
realised high prices, SOW 40 gasman sot being uncommon.
Welch posies were in demand at 31. to 121. each. The fair
will continue to-morrow, sad be renewed on Monday, when
the races will take piece.
DREADFUL AFFAIR NEAR COVENTRY.—Much
excitement has been created in the village of Fillong-
hey, near Coventry, by a very 'bookie. tragedy which
has just weaned there. During last week rumours were in
choulatioo respecting the death of a young woman, named
Jane Dolby, wife of a labourer residing to the village;
and swim isformation having reached the ears of
the rural polies raker, an inquest was opened on the
body by Mr. Alfred Carter, coroner, oo Wednesday week.
at the Weavers' Arms, Filloogley. The husband of the
deceased then gave evidence to the effect that on the pre-
vious Saturday, on going home from work at shoat half-
past omen in the evening, he found his wife seriously ill.
She requested him to go for Mr. La Fargo", a surgeon, who
had been attending her daring the previous fortnight.'
She complained of great pais in the left side and in her
back. Before going for the medical man he locked the
door after him, leaving his wife is bed. When he
came back, having called moo his wife's mother oa
the way, he found the doctor had already arrived, and
was waiting to be admitted. Ile tried to unlock the
door, bat could not do so, the button which fastened the
latch from within having slipped down, or been placed
down, so as to provost the door being opened. The door
was burst open, and they went upstairs, where they
found the deceased lying dead by the side of the bed.
Police•oonstable Pitts way produced two bottles—one
containing a small quantity of laudanum, which the
husband said be took for his complaint, sod the other a
lotion, which he said be rubbed hie side with. After
this evidence had been takes, the inquest was adjourned
till Thureday. Os the following Sunday, the husband
went to church on Sunday afternoon. sad after the service
proceeded to the house of his mothiw.in-law, where he
swallowed a quantity of prussic acid, which caused almost
instant death. A letter written by the deceased man was
subsequently forted, in which he stated that his wife bad
died from the effects of poison which he bail induced her to
take, and that he had promised to " join beret the throes of
grace as that day week." A post-mortem examination will
be made of the bodies.
MANCRETTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETT.—Lord Derby will be asked to preside at a dinner
to be given by this moiety, preparatory to their annual show,
which will be held in Bi Park next week. The
dinner is axed for Wednesday, the 9th instant, With re-
gard to the show itself it will be Gee of the floest which
has ever bean bald is the Laamdtire and Cheshire districts,
the entries exceeding by 1.000 them of any previous exhibi-
tion of the Maathairter sad Liverpool Agricultural
Society. The chow will be • very complete
one, mid include upwards of 3,100 entries, all
of which will be more or leas attractive. The
hunters, which include some Tres breeds, will leap if re-
quired, but leaping is not to be made a situ mid MIL
Amongst the manufactured goods, our Federal American
friends have seat a cheese weighing 70016..: rather exten-
sive farming this implies. The machinery and implement
deArtMealso will be especially attractive, as the articles
ere to be both le sad oat of motion. The Channel Fleet
is expected is the Mersey during the show, end an invite-
ties has bees forwarded to Admiral Damn, the commis-
aimed oMoers, and non.commissimed officers and men, to
attend the show—of course free of all expense. Earl
Grosvenor would have presided over the pomading", but
illness keeps him away.