Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-08 00:00:00

THE STEPNEY INQUISITION

The inquisition at Stepney, touching the death of an
infant, alleged to be the illegitimate child of a young
lady, the daughter of a clergyman in Wales, was
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resumed yesterday. The Rev. . Bonwell, incumbent
of St. Phillips's, Stepney, was examined. He deposed
that an unmarried woman, named Yorath, was confined
of a child in the schoolroom attached to his church.
When at the hotel, and it was found that the child
would not live, he baptized it. The death of the child
'was registered, but not its birth. Ayres, an undertaker,
of Great Cross-street, confessed to the surreptitious
placing of the child's body in the coffin of a deceased
woman, and that- there was then only one burial
service and one certificate of death. Dr. Godfrey,
of Finsbury and Whitechapel, who was present
at the birth of the child, and subsequently at-
tended it, described the symptoms previous to death.
At the close of the evidence, Mr. Beste, who watched
the case on behalf of Mr. Bonwell, hoped the jury would
consider his client had not been guilty of any criminal
act. The jury found that the child, when in the charge
of the mother and the Rev. Mr. Bonwell, died of
inanition; and lastly, that the conduct of Elizabeth
Yorath and Rev. James Bonwell, and Ayres, the under-
taker, is highly censurable.

The treaty of peace between France and Austria will,
it is believed, be signed at Zurich, on the 10th or 12th
instant.

The Paris correspondent of the Times, referring to
the article in the Constitutionnel of Thursday, remarks
upon the double current exhibited by the comments of
the Ministerial press on Italian affairs :—" It is: a see-
saw of encouragement and discouragement ; and the
result is a general feeling of doubt as to what the
Government really intends to do."
The story is revived that the Central Italian States
have offered the Regency, to Prince Carignana, a cousin
of Victor Emmanuel, and Regent of Piedmont during
the late war; but this time it is accompanied by a. report
that the Prince has signified his willingness to accept
the post.

The following appeared in a portion of our im-
pression of yesterday :

AMERICA

The Vanderbilt steam-ship Ocean Queen, C. P. Sea-
burg, commander, from New York, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m.,
arrived at Cowes this morning, at 10 a.m., having sus-
tained heavy weather during the most part of her pas-
sage. She brings mails, 11 passengers, and $786,337
in specie, for Southampton ; also, mail, 163 passengers,
$493,215 specie, and cargo, for Havre. On 25th Sept.,
3 p.m., lat. 40.35 N., long. 69 W., passed steamer Van-
derbilt, steering west ; Sept. 30, at 1.0 a.m., lat 48.10 N.,
long. 44.50 west, passed steamer Fulton, steering west.

INDIA AND AUSTRALIA.
[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.]
MALTA, Oct. 3.—The Panther has arrived with the
Bombay and Australian mails.
BOMBAY, Sept. 10.—Imports unaltered. Cotton with-
out change. Oilseed unchanged. Exchange on Lon don
2s Old. Money easier.
MELBOURNE, Aug. 19th.—Departure of gold ships for
-England :—On 4th, British Trident, 32,706 oz.; on 9th,
George Marshall, 29,813 oz.; on 1 lth, Dirige, 18,653
oz. Imports dull and below exports, Wool firm.
Exchange prem. The above telegram left Malta on
3rd inst., at p.m.
The Times publishes a
.private telegram received in
Liverpool, yesterday, from India, which states that thi
European troops had accepted the bounty and consented
to go to China. The slight relapse in the funds yester-
day afternoon was caused by the telegrams from India,
from second edition of the Times, not containing any
confirmation of the intelligence.

AUSTRIA AND THE GERMAN UNION.
[REUTER'S TaEGRAIO

FRANKFORT, Friday.—The Duke of Saxe Coburg has
replied to the note addressed to him by the Austrian
Cabinet. He does not contemplate the exclusion of
Austria from the German union, but asserts that
German support of Austria has been rendered lately
impossible by the defects of the Federal Constitution,
and by the sudden conclusion of peace by Austria.