The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-22 00:00:00

LYNCH LAW IN CHELSEA.

During yesterday and the two preceding days great
excitement has prevailed in the neighbourhood of Clan-
sea tied Brompton, in consequence of a series of outrages
having been commit'ed by a mob of persons, toithe
number of several hundreds, which have resulted in a
considerable destruction of property. It appears that a
few days ago a report was circulated that a womaa
named Sarah Cox, living in Green-street, Marlbo-
rough-road, had put her child, a little girl eight years
old, upon the fire, and burnt her to death. This state-
ment was generally believed, as it was known in the
neighbourhood that the child had for a lengthened period
been ill-treated by her mother, who, in addition to
beating her,is said to have locked her up in a room
for fi:teen or sixteen hours in the coldest days
of winter, without either food or Ste. An inquest
was held on the body, at which the medical evi-
dence was to the effect that the child died from the
effects of fire, but as it origin could not, bo ascertained,
the jury returned an open verdict. This did not satisfy
the neighbours, who -seem to have been convinced that
the mother was guilty of murdering the child, and
therefore they determined to take the law into their own
hands. The funeral was arranged to take place at St.
Luke's Church on Monday afternoon. At the hour ap-
pointed for the procession to leave the house, many
hundreds of persons assembled round it, who vowed they
would tear the woman to pieces if they could lay hands
upon her. A messenger was secretly sent to the police
station, and a number of constables arrived at the house.
The procession left the house, and immediately the
crowd, which had greatly increased in fury, set up a
frightful shrieking and hooting, following up that show
of their indignation by hurling showers of large stones,
mud, and filth at the mother with great violence. Se-
verat of the stones struck her in the face and on the
head, and her clothes were covered with mud. The mob
who followed the coffin all the way to the churchyard,
hooting, shrieking, and throwing stones like so many
mad people, endeavoured several times to seize her, and
had it not been for ten or twelve policemen who sur-
rounded her, she would most certainly have been seri-
ously injured. The officers urged the mob to allow the
coffin to be taken quietly to the grave, but they refused
to listen. At length, after considerable difficulty, the
churchyard was reached, and there the scene was one
of a fearful description. The mob now amounted to up-
wards of a thousand persons, all of whom were shout-
ing and throwing stones, and the uproar became so
great that not a word of the burial service could be beard.
The clergyman had at last to desist, and make the best
of his way from the spot. The mob then Again endea-
voured to get possession of the woman; and had it not
been for the moat strenuous exertions of the police, she
would have been trampled to death. The return from
the church was of a more uproarious character; bat the
woman, under the protection of the police, managed to
get into her house, and the doors were fastened. The
mob then took up a position in front, where they re-
mained until a late hour, thinking the woman would
make her appearance. Daring the, night she and her
friends made their escape from the house, atter having
packed up all their goods and filled a waggon with them,
which they had managed to persuade a carman in the
neighbourhood to bring. The goods were taken with
the waggon to a stable for the rest of the night, in or-
der that they might be conveyed away in the morning.
Before, however, that was done the mob again assembled,
and hearing that the woman had tlsd, their rage knew no
bounds. Being told that the goods were in the neigh-
bourhood, they determined upon finding and destroying
them. The neggon nes met in the street, and the work
of destruction commenced. Mahogany tables, drawers,
and bedsteads were broken into a thousand pieces; beds
cut -open and feathers and flocks thrown into the road;
china and looking-glasses smashed, and every article
destroyed. Toe police interfered, but the crowd at this
(nearly twelve o'clock on Tuesday night) was upwards
of five thousand persons, and their efforts were un-
availing. The mob then again repaired to the house,
thinking the woman was in the neighbourhood. They
remained there nearly all night and began again to as•
sellable yesterday morning, end to increase during the
day; and last night a large mob was endeavouring to find
the object of their hatred, whom they vowed they would
murder if she was to be found.

PRICES OF WHEAT, FLOUR, AND

BREAD, IN LONDON- AND PARIS.
Annex :id is a comparison of the present prices of
wheat, flour, and bread, in London and Paris:_

The highest price of wheat of the first quality in Paris
is 29f. per 11 hectolitre, which is equal to 445. 3d. per
quarter; and the highest price of white wheat of the first
quality in London being 48a. per quarter, it follows that
wheat is nearly 8i per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris.

Tne highest quotation of flour of the first quality in
Pttis is 35f. 15e. the 130 kilogrammes, which is equal to
355. 2d. per sack, of 2801 b. English; and the highest
quotation of flour in the London market being 40s. the
sack, it follows that flour is about 13 per cent. dearer in
London than in Paris. The highest quotation of the
second quality of white flour in Paris is 32f. 50c., which
is equivalent to 325. 6d. per sack of 280ib., and which,
as compared with the quotation in London of 30s. tor
.household flour, shows that this description of flour
is nearly 8i per cent. dearer in Paris than in London.
The price of bread of the firbt quality in Paris is 31c.
per kilogramme, which is cqual to about 54d. the 41b.
loaf, English weight; and the price of bread in London
at the full•priced shops being 7d. per 41b., it follows that
breed is about 334 per cent. dearer in London than in
Paris. The second quality of bread is quoted at 24
cents. per kilogramme in Paris, which is equivalent to
nearly 40. per 41b. loaf.