The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-20 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market---This Day.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
Waiting steamer. Steady. Sales, perhaps 4,000
tales, Import, 441.

A HORRIBLE LITERARY CURIOSITY.—There is
in the library of the Boston Athena= a thin
Octavo volume with the following title :—" Narrative of
the Life of James Allen, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James
11. York, alias Burby Grove. The Highwayman. Being
his Death-Bed Confession to the Warden of the Massa-
chusetts State Prison. Boston : Harrington & Co., Pub-
lishers, 1837." The startling peculiarity about the afore-
Said volume is this. After the death of Walton, his body
Was given to the surgeons ; his skin was tanned ; and in
this fearful leather, made from his own cutaneous integu-
silent, the narrative of the life of the highwayman is bound
111% A Latin inscription on the cover states the horripilat-
ilag fact :—" Hie Liber Traltonis Cute compactus est."
FRIGHTFUL CHILD MURDER IN SALFORD.—At
the Salford police court yesterday morning, before
...
H. L. Trafford and the Mayor of Salford, a young
Woman named Elizabeth Benyon, 20 years of age, was
Placed in the dock charged with the wilful murder of her
own child, a boy twelve months old. Sergeant Greenwood,
of the county police force, said that from information he re-
ceived he on the 18th inst. went to a house in Eccles, where
the prisoner had lodged. He there saw the prisoner, and
said to her, "Elisabeth, you have a child, have you not ?"
She replied that she had. Witness asked her where it was,
and she then said, " I gave it to a woman on Tuesday night,
near Hulme church. She was tall, and told me she lived at
No. 9, Newton-street, Hulme." Gteenwood told her he
should have to lock her up on suspicion of having destroyed
the child, and about eleven o'clock the same night he spoke
to the prisoner and told her that the story she had given
Was untrue. Prisoner then said, " I will tell you where
the child is if you will not put me in those cells." Green-
Wood told her he could not make any promise of that kind,
and the prisoner said immediately after, " I put it in the
Water, and if you will go along with me I will show you
Where it was," and added—" I should never have done it but
for a man who came along with me from Deansgate on the
V°37 home. He said I was to tie a stone round the child's
neck, and throw them both into the river, about two yards
rem the bank, near Mode Wheel Mill; a distant church
clock at the same moment chimmed twelve." Greenwood
accompanied the prisoner to tie place where she mentioned,
and she pointed out the place where she had thrown the
child into the river, and where it was afterwrrds found.
witness fonnd some pawn tickets on the prisoner relating
toW some baby's clothing. The prisoner, who seemed very
deeply affected by her position, was then remanded till
Tuesday next.
EAST INDIA FINANCE AND REVENUE ACCOUNTS.
'"A voluminous account was issued yesterday of the
finance and revenue accounts of the Government of India
for the year 1861.62. It appears that the gross receipts
Were £43,829,472, and the repayments, allowances, refunds,
and drawback, a 41,638. The net receipts within the year,
after deducting repayments, were £43,487,934. The charges
against income are as follows :—Charges of collection, in-
cluding cost and charges of salt and opium, £5,505,982;
allowances and assignments under treaties and engage-
Inellts, £1,640,466; allowances to district and village offi-
'
~erB, £599,682; miscellaneous, £x20,742; making the total
charges against income, £7,766,872, the receipts into the
several Government treasuries being £35,721,062. The same
return shows that the excess of expenditure over income
has been £50,628.