The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-12 00:00:00

HAY MARKZTS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
1 rade firm.
CUMBERLAND..—MeafIOW hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; cloven,
£4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
Supply only moderate.
WurrEcHAPEL.—Meadow bay, £3 Os to £4 10s ; clover,
XI Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
A steady demand,

The Church Times of to'-day says :—" We can
state on good authority
that Miss Margaret Goodman, the
author of a book on Sisterhoods in the Church of Eng-
land,' which made some little noise at tba time of its publi-
cation, has been received into the Roman communion."
WHAT IS COMING TO ALL THE LITTLE CHILDREN ?
—On Thursday Dr. Lankester held three inquests
at the Lord Wellington Tavern, University-street, Totten-
ham-court-road, relative to the deaths of children. The
first case taken was that of Kato Eliza King, aged six
months, whose body was completely skeletonised. She was
the daughter of a commercial traveller, who had deserted
his wife and family. The mother, in order to support her
children, had taken a situation as saleswoman in a milliner's
shop, and was consequently compelled to put the deceased
out to nurse, for which she regularly paid Os. a week. A
month since she removed the child, then in most miserable
condition, from the first nurse, to the care of a second,
under whom it slightly improved, It had had no medical
attendance, and died, as was stated, while being conveyed
to the hospital. Mr. Ringer said the child looked as
though it had been starved, and it did not weigh 61b. He
was of opinion that it had been dead longer than was
stated. The cause of death was exhaustion from want of
nourishment. Verdict—Death) from exhaustion through
want of proper nourishment, from Natural Causes.
The second inquest was on the body of "Fitzroy," a
foundling of three months' old, which was found on the
night of last Friday fortnight on a doorstep in Fitzroy-
place, Fitzroy-square, and thereupon was named as above
by the St. Pancras board. The child was suckled by one
of the inmates of the workhouse, and did very well up to
Friday night last, when it was suddenly taken ill, and died
before medical assistance could be advantageously obtained.
Mr. Bury, the surgeon, said death resulted from inflam-
mation of the left lung and congestion of the brain. Ver-
dict—Death by natural causes. The third case was one of
very melancholy character, the child, William Gerrish
Farrent, under three years of age, being literally roasted
alive. H© was the son of a cabinet maker, and the mother
went out to work. OnWednesday evening
last the father
returned from his work, and remained with the deceased
and two other children, aged five and seven, until twenty
minutes before nine, and he went out with a friend who had
called upon him. Previously, however, the friend wanted
a light for his pipe, and a lighted candle was placed on the
table for his accommodation. There was also a telescopic
lamp suspended from the ceiling. They then left the de-
ceased sitting on a bird organ on a large 100 table, which
was pushed close to the wall, the father forgetting to put
At nine o'clock, the mother arrived, and
out the candle.
found her child in the condition described. He was seated
on the table, which was burnt under him like a basin. His
clothes were all burnt off him, with the exception
of a
por-
tion of his shirt (produced),which adhered to his loins. The
poor child could just articulate " Ohl mother," when she
ran away with him to the hospital. After his frightfully
burned body had been dressed he survived two hours. The
Jury considered the leaving the candle was a thoughtless
act of which any one might be guilty, and returned a ver-
dict of accidental death,