The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-03 00:00:00

THE CHAN_VEL YACHT RACE.

The competing vessels for the Cup to be given
to the winner of the race from the Sore to Cherbourg
started this morning at 8.40 a.m. ; two hours' flood, mo-
derate breeze N.N.E. The competing vessels are :
Yachts. Rig. Tons. Owners.
Cambria .. schooner 188 .. Mr. James Ashbury.
Condor..., cutter .. 133 .. Captain Ewing.

Pantomime schooner 132 .. Col. W. T. Markham.

Albvitine schooner 156 .. Capt. Ormsby Phibbs.
Julia yawl .. P 22 Mr. G. F. Moss.

Glorinna schooner 133 .. Mr. A. 0. Wilkinson.

Tin Niobe cutter, 40 tons, did not :tart.—Times, second

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ANOTHER CASE OF fIABY FARMING.

A singular ease of baby fanning was investi-
tmt, di by Mr. Richards, deputy coroner. last evening at
the Queen's Head tavern, } lect-street, Bethnal-green.
l'lte child was named George Pocock, and was eight
mouths old, although in appearance it was no bigger than
u new born infant. _

Its mother, a single woman and a cook in service, put
the child out to nurse to a Mrs. Moorer, of Rider's-build-
ings, Bethnal-green, at 6s. a week, which sum she after-
wards had to sedum to 2.4. 6d. a week.

Dr. F. J. Burgess said that he made a post mortem exa-
mination of the body of the child. It weighed only 81b.
The proper weight for a child of that age was 161 b. or 181 b.
It was emaciated to the last degree. There was no trace
of fat. Even such organs as the liver, spleen, &c., had be-
come shrivelled and diminutive from long want of suste-
nance. There was no disease. The cause of death was
inanition, from want of food—in a word, the child died
from starvation.

Bache] Booth, the wife of a general dealer, said that the
day before the child's death Mrs. Moorer left it locked up
in the bedroom from 10 or 11 in Use morning till between
6 and 7at night. Witness peeped in and saw it crying.
Mts. Moorer came home in-lig-nor, and told witness's -little
girl to mind it till 10 o'clock and she would glee her 2d.
Witness got a heltpennyworth of milk for it, and it
swallowed it greedily. Mrs. Moorer told witness,
" The money is not enough to keep the child." Wit-
ness Mowed her up, and Bald, " Then you should give it
hack to the mother or take it to the pariah, and not starve
it to death."
Rebecca Booth said that she need to do beadwork for
Mrs. Moorer. She saw the latter beat her child, and
once gave it a black eye. The child used to be fed very
seldom, and generally on bread and water sop. Some-
times witness was sent for milk for it, and sometimes she
bought a farthing's worth herself and gave it to the baby.
Once when witness borrowed food and fed the child, her
mistress " jawed" her fur it.
Mrs. Moorer cross-examined this witness, who per-
sisted in her statement. The black eye was not caused,
she said, by falling out of bed. The child used to be
lucked in the bedroom while Mrs. Moorer went out, and
the work girls were not left to see after it.
Mrs. Moorer (to the witness)--You wicked little hussy.
I dare say you drank the child's milk yourself, for you
used to eat my victuals, and when you would do one
wicked thingion would do another.
Margaret Norman said that Mrs. Moorer used to stay
cut all day, and come home at times a little giddy, but the
child was not locked in the room. (The girl Booth contra-
dicted this latter statement.)
Ellen Lee said that the child was well treated till Easter,
but since then it was dreadfully neglected.
The' coroner said that he did not like to take the se-
cured at a disadvantage and eend her to prison without
giving her an opportunity of getting legal aid. He would
adjourn the case for that purpose.
Mrs. Moorer was hooted and mobbed by a large crowd
of women as she left the court.

During May and June, Calstocb, a village near
Tavictock, in: Devonshire, on the banks of the Tamar,
furnished the metropolis with 13,000 gallons of straw-
berries, weighing about 30 tons.
DISTRESSING SCENE AT THE SURREY CANAL.—
Yesterday evening, about 8 o'clock, a young man named
Henry Morrell, a student at Ouy's Hospital, lost his life
in the Surrey Canal, under the following circumstances.
It appears that the deceased, accompanied by two brothers,
was bathing in the canal, and the deceased having swum,
though in an indifferent manner, across, was returning,
when he found that he was unable to reach the opposite
bank. He clutched at a coal barge; but being
unsuccessful in getting hold of it he sack. As
soon as this was perceived the scene became
one of the most painful description. One of the brothers
dived, and was nearly dragged down by the deceased, but
could not save him, nor could others who used the utmost
exertions to do so. MI the while this was going on, the
other brother was crying in piteous tones, "601. for who-
ever saves him !" and appeared to be in an agonising state
of mind. After the lapse of arms minutes the dead body
was recovered by Mr. Lewis, the keeper of the hatch. by
means of the drags, and Dr. Haynes, of the Old Kent-
road, who bad been sent for, tried every means in his
power to restore animation, but without success. The
body of the deceased was removed to the residence of his
relatives in Orimacott-street, Bermudan.