The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-02 00:00:00

THE INQUEST,

On Thursday a respectable body of men assembled
at the house of Mr. Ashton, the Black Bull Inn,
in Ecclestield, near Sheffield, before Mr. B. BADGE,
coroner for that district of Yorkshire, on view of
the body of the child, when the following evidence
was adduced :

Ellen Greaves, the wife of Thomas °reeves, of
Ecclesfie in the county of York, file-cutter, de
posed--I know Esther Dyson, of Ecelesfield, single
woman, who is about 23 years of age; she is deaf
and dumb. I live next door to her, and she live.
with her brother, who is also deaf and dumb. Three
or four months ago I challenged her with being in
the family way, but she denied it. She has sufficient
knowledge, in my opinion, to know what is right or
wrong, and I can make her understand by signs
what I mean. About a month ago I again chal-
lenged her with being with child, and she seemed
angry with me, and told me by signs that it
• was some stuff that she had applied inwardly
• and outwardly to her throat, which had made
her body swell. I made signs to her to begirt
and make some clothes for her child, at the same
time showing her my infant, but site seemed to blow it
away, making Signs sheaving that she wa: not with
child; I was in the habit of seeing Esther Dyson
daily. On Friday lust, the 24111 alt., I saw her
about twelve o'clock, at her own house door, and
she appeared quite big in the family way; I did
not see her again till about nine o'clock on Saturday
morning, when she was washing the house-floor, and
she seemed pale, languid, and weak. On Saturday
morning last, about nine o'clock, I motioned to her
to know how she was; she then had a flannel tied
round her neck. She motioned to me that she had
thrown up a large substance, and it had settled her
body. About three o'clock on Sunday last, the
26th instant, I went to her house, and her brother
motioned to me that his sister was in bed very sick,
but I did not go up stairs. About four o'clock on
the same day, site appeared poorly and weak, and I
desired her brother to make her some tea, end I
stopped till site took it. I left about five o'clock
on Sunday afternoon. From her altered appear-
ance I have no doubt that she had been delivered of
a child.

Hannah Butcher corroborated the above evidence►
and said, that from her observation, us a married
woman, she believed the-prisoner had been delivered
of a child on the Friday.
William Graham examined—l am a blacksmith.
Know the prisoner, and I think her intelligent. On
S►turday night last, the 2tith instant, oboist eight
o'clock, I was returning home to Eccleslield from
Wortley, and I met the prisoner in Lee-lane, in
Ecclestield township, with something wrapped up
before her apron. She was on a footpath leading
from Beelestield to Wortley, and about GOO yards
from the cotton-mill dam, where the body of a fe-
male child has been found. She having passed, I
met Henry Woodhouse, and he asked me if it was
not the dumb girl whom I had met ? and I said yes,
it was.

runny Guest, a gentleman's servant, who had
been in conversation with Woodhouse, deposed to
her having also seen the dumb girl pass her, with
something under her apron.
James Henderson, overlooker of the thread-mill
belonging to Mr. Barlow, knows the prisoner and
her brother, who is also deaf and dumb. They
have worked in the mill eleven years. Is satisfied
that the dumb girl is capable of distinguishing right
from wrong. On Sunday last ssitness went to W.
Dyson, the dumb man's house, and he willingly gave
me his keys to examine the boxes belonging to rim.
I saw nothing suspicious in his room. 1 then ex-
amined the prisoner's room, and I found blood on
the chamber floor, and blood partially wiped off the
floor. The wall was also sprinkled with blood. I
withdrew the curtain of her chamber Window, and
observed marks of blood on the window bottom.
I opened a band-box, and found two aprons and a
skirt, on which appeared as if a substance had been
laid upon them, the blood having run through the
skirt. The prisoner canoe up stairs, and, by signs,
desired mu to conic away, and not search. Being
convinced that something wrong had been done, 1 11
sent for the vestry clerkond in his presence searched
the prisoner's box, and 'found several articles, from
which it was evident that they belonged to a person
who had beep delivered of a child. On Monday
last, about an hour after the child had been found
in the dam, it was brought to the Ecclesfield work-
house, and laid down by her. I asked her in her
brother's presence why she blamed him ? She then
satisfied me that ho bad nothing to do with it, but
that she had done it herself. She told her brother
in my presence that she did not throw the child
into the dam. She merely laid it in. I conceive
the prisoner to be a shrewd, clever Woman.
Ann Briggs examined—l am the wife of Thomas
Briggs, cutler, of Ecclesfield. The piece of green
cloth produced by William Shaw, the constable, and
in which the child was found, is a part of a sofa
cover belonging to Wm. Dyson, prisoner's brother;
I took the body of the child out of the cloth, and
then to the workhouse; I also, at the same time,
took the head of the child also found in the dam,.
out of a separate piece of green cloth, which also
belonged to the sofa alluded to. I have practised
as a midwife for upwards of twenty years, and it is
my opinion that the head of the child had been cut
off by some dull instrument. Mr. Thomas Yeardley,
who has a dumb child of his own, gave me some
books, which are published for the purpose ,of in-
structing deaf and dumb children ; for, upwards of
twelve months 1 instructed the prisoner In making
signs and learning her the dumb alphabet, and she
has obtained that instruction that I am convinced
she can understand me; sheds of very quirk tips
prehension. On Monday last I went to the pri-
soner, and asked her to explain the manner to me
hoW she was delivered of the child. I said to her,
" The child's head is cut off." I have seen her
several times since, and .she still insists that the
head came On reproving her with throwing it
into the dam, she showed me that she had not thrown
it in, but had laid it in pretty and nice.,

James Machin deposed that, in consequence of
information given to him on Sunday night, he went
to the prisoner's house, and found it in the state de-
scribed by the other witnesses. I, assisted by W.
Shaw, the constable of Itcelesfield, searched the dam,
and pulled out the headless body du fine full-gown
infant—a female. Thu witness went on to Corrobo-
rate the testimony of Henderson and Graves, as to
the appearances in the prisoner's bed-room.
Sarah Ingham deposed-4 am the governess of.
the Buell:40d workhouse. I went to the house of
Dyson, and received from Henderson certain articles
wrapped in a bundle; they were all saturated with
blond-. The articles produced are the same, and
have been in my care ever since. I examined the
breasts of the prisoner, and found a deal of milk in
them. She told me the same story as to the man-
ner in which the head cameoff, the she did the Other
witnesses. I produced a knife to her, and showed
by signs that she had cut the head off. But she
threw herself on one side, and shunned the idea.
William Shaw, the constable of Ecchisfield, con-
firmed the testimony of Machin.

Mr, William Jackson, Lecturer on Anatomy,
stated, that on the 28th day of September last, he
examined Esther Dyson, the prisoner, and she had
every appearance of hying recently been delivered.
He was decidedly of opinion, -from the eutminatiou,
that the head, of the child had not been torn or
screwed off by the
mother. lie also had no doubt,
from the particular examination made of the body
of the deceased, and from the appearance which it

exhib;ted on, that examination, that the child was
barn alive.
Mr. Joseph Campbell, surgeon, having also ex-
atnirted both the wan and the child, fully corro-
Imitte4. cstimony.
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the: CoRONEw trimetl p,
The Jury retireAsi dntl in a few minutes returned
with a verdict of " Murder against Esther
Dyson."
The CottoNEß then issued a warrant for the un-
fortunate woman's comm:t tal to York Castle, to take
her trial at the ensuing Lent Assizes.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK, srn. 25.

The plan adopted as an experiment last season, of giving
information respecting the crop of Hops by public ad-
vertisement, instead of sending circular letters, having
given very general satisfaction, it is the intention of the
undersigned Hop-merchants to continue it.
The Mid and East Kent districts, where the hest class
of Hops are usually grown, have suffered this year by the
disease of mould to a greater extent than was ever known ;
so that the quantity grown of choice Hops is very limited.
In the Weald of Kent and Sugsex the crops are better ;
a large pot tion, however, of these districts rem tins to be
picked.
The crops of Worcester, Farnham, and Essex are very
bad. There has been rather a plentiful supply of Kent
pockets in the market, of which the best sorts have been
freely bought at advancing prices; very few Imp have
been on sale, and no East Kent in bags or pockets.
The lateness of the picking has kept short the supply of
Suss,x pockets ; these that have been offered have found a
ready sale.
Old Hops, particularly of the growth of 1826, 1827,
and 1828, are much in demand, and at improved prices.
The duty is estimated at 94,000/.

CURRENCY.
L. a. s.
Now Kent pockets 9 9 to 12 12
Ditto Sussex ditto 9 9 to 10 10
Ditto Kent bags 810 to 9 0
Ditto East Kent—no bags or pickets at market.
Diseased Hops to be had much tinder theso (potations.
r. L. a.
Yearling pockets . 7 0 to 9 0
Ditto bags 6lO to 710
1828 bags and pockets 515 to 8 0
1827 ditto.. ...ditto 4 0 to 512
1826 ditto ditto 10 to 5 5
Old Olds . . ...1 5 to 216
(Signed) BUSH and WERE.
JOHN DOBSON and CO.
JONES and ARMSTRONG.
MUNN and WYLD,
WM. MYERS.
WM. ()LOA KER.
PRESTWICH and Co.
TIM. RICHARDSON.
TIM ACK RAIL LOCKWOOD,
and THRA CK RA H.
EDWD WIGAN and CO.
WOODS, FIELD, and WOOD.

The Court Journal of this day, No. LX XV.,
has resumed its Accounts of the Residences of the English
Nobility, by giving a description of the Duke of BRUNS.
wicies Villa at Chiswick. The same Number contains
also, among numerous other interesting Papers, a Chapter
on Talking, illu,teeted by references to the style of Con-
versation of Lord ALVANLItY, Mr. Lurrart,r,, Mr. J.
Mooar., Mr. CRONER, Mr. Cour.ainor, the lion. Mrs.
Nowrow, &c.—A Paper on Walking Sticks—Club Law
—A Biographical Notice of Lady Tit u atow—Aremint of
the Fke at the Palace at Brighton—lnteresting Letters
from Brussels—News from Foreign Courts, &e. &c.

On Thursday last a meeting of gentlemen
was held at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool, when it was
agreed to present a requisition to Sir ROBERT PEEL, in-
viling•him to permit himself to he put in nomination as a
candidate to represent that town in Parliament. The re-
quisition received the names of a number of respectilde
and influential persons, and it will he forwarded to the
Right Hon. Gentleman in the course or the ensuing week.
As Soon as it was known that a requisition to Sir ROBERT
had been agreed on, Another meeting was held, at which
a requisition to Mr. CHARLES GRANT was unanimously
voted, inviting him to become a candidate for the seat,
which is now vacant l.y the death of his friend Mr. MS.
NISSON. The only candidate who has announced him-
self is Mr. WILI.I.Vbt F.wattr, who, though a promising
young man, seems not to possess sufficient ability to re•
present a town which has numbered CANNING and nes-
KISSON among its Members. Sir STRATEORD CANNING
has been mentioned as another candidate; and there is
little doubt, were he to offer himself to the choice of the
freemen, that he would receive a very general support.
'We hear, however, that Sir STRATFORD does not think
he should he justified in addressing the electors, being a
stranger t 4 them, unless he were invited to become a can-
didate. The death of Mr. flusetssow, it is worthy of
remark, has entirely broken up the party of which he
was the head. Several of his most influential friends at-
tended the meeting, at which it was agreed to invite Sir
Roister Prim to become a candidate; whilst the re-
mainder immediately resolved to invite Mr. CHARLES
GRANT. The latter gentleman is at present in Scotland,
and thither a deputation will proceed on Friday.

MILITARY DISCIPLINE.-011 WedltOliday
rooming, at nine o'clock, ions HA wromA4s EDMONDSON',
a private in the 3d battalion of the let regiment of root
Guards, commanded by his Grace the Duke of Wnwsa-
TON, was brought out from his place of confinement into
the Armoury-pull, St. James's-park, in older to undergo
the punishment awarded to him by a court martial. The
nro.urtanate nun, it appears, about three months ago, was
on duty at the Tower, and was standing sentry at a place
called the One-Gun Battery, and was detected asleep on
his post. He was placed in confinement, and a court
martial was held. It was not until Wednesday last that
he was brought out to hear the sentence of the court
martial, which wee read over to the Regiment, and be was
to receive 500 lashes. Ho was immediately tied up, and
after having taken 155 lashes, he fainted away. The blood
spirted from the wretched man's back on the drummer's
face, and it was found necessary to stop the punishment,
and he was taken immediately to the Military Hospital in
Rochester-row, Westminster, where his back wfts stressed.

A case of shocking barbarity has, lately oc-
curred in Peyden (Aratrica,) A negro fellow, known by
the name of ASAliti, nearly cut off the tongue of one of
his own children. The sufferer .wita a girl aged eight
years, and bad offended tier father by committing the
enormous crime of picking a cucumber froM the garden.
ASABEL was absent at the t►me, but was infoimed of it on
hit return, when he seized a knife, went to the child who
Was asleep, and slashed the tongue considerably more than
half off. It is said the child bas a long time been abomi-
minably abused by built parents; and living in dread of
their auger, revealed the deed to nobody. but a fortnight
after, having found a bottle of rum in the field, she drank
to intoxication, and was found by a gentleman lying on
the ground, with her mangled and now almost petrified
tongue banging oat of her mouth, Medical aid was im-
mediately procured, and the child, whose life was threat-
coed by her horrible conilitioa, is now out of danger,
though her tongue will ever be nearly useless. The
savage father was drunk when he committed this outrage
upon humanity. We do not vomit* for the entire accu-
racy of the above, hut give it as told to us. ASAUL
now in custody.-- Great field Gazette.

EDINDUltati, SEPT. 27.—0 n l'hursclay the
Russian Government steam-ship Bebe' bound from St.
Petersburgh to Odessa, arrived in Leith harbour, 'consider
rably disabled, having encountered the dreadful gale of
Sunday last, and put in bore for repairs. 'This is the first
foreign steam -vessel that has come to Leith, and the coin-
cidence is not a little striking that she was built at the
Russian capital by a native of this town, named SiNCLAIR,
and the engineer also belongs to Leith. A beautiful bronze
fiche, with her cup, adorns the prow, and the vessel alto-
ther is elegantly finished. She has been five days from
Christian Sound, and will proneed to Odessa as soon as
refitted, between which place sad the Asiatic she is in-
tended to ply. 'General CLARKE, of the Imperial Russ
sign service, and family, are passengers.

This morning, Saturday, a young female, not
much above 17 years of age, whose dress and appearance
ct; f
in a lookt h
e
water, plunged in at the moment, and providentially saved
ke much respectability, flung herself into the canal at
.1r and would moat certainly have perished but for
bespo
"imerit, .
toloietehterotaivoingsaotifoott, man flamed
partGt.o os.rxß f
h'er keeperlo the
her from an early grave. The young woman was in a
limit distressing state of mind, after restoration to her
senile/.
She finally expressed her acknowledgments for
the interest which all around evinced in her behalf, dia. '
eleyell the utmost contrition. for the rashness of her eon-
Let, and moat fervently thanked her deliverer. From
respect to the feelings of the young female, we decline
giving her name ; hut we cannot sufficiently Manifest our
abhorrence for the wretch who tittered a report, at once
malignant and wountiless, .against her character. This
reflection she could not bear, and in a paroxyam of passion
attempted the dreadful "crime of suicide.—Limerich Oran.