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

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

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

A HORRIBLE LITERARY CURIOSITY.—There is
ill the library of the Boston Athenaeum a thin
octavo volume with the following title :—" Narrative of
the Life of Zames Allen, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James
A. 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 volu.rue 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-
ment, the narrative of the life of the highwayman is bound
11P. A Latin inscription on tb.e cover states the horripilat-
intz' fact :—" Bic Liber Waltonis Cute compactus est."
FRIGHTFUL CHILD MURDER IN SALFORD.—At
the Salford police court yesterday morning, before
L. Trafford and the Mayor of Salford, a young
Woman named Elizabeth Benyon, 20 years of ege, was
placed in the dock charged with the wilful murder of her
awn 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, "Elizabeth, 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 pi isoner 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." Greens
'Wood told her he could not make any promise of that kind,
4/ICI 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 wag," and added—"l should never have done it but
for a man who came along with me from Deansgate on the
IllraY home. He said I was to tie a stone round the child's
`heck, 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 chhumed twelve." Greenwood
accompanied the prisoner to the 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 found some pawn tickets on the prisoner relating
't° Some baby's clothing. The prisoner, who seemed very
deeply affected by her position, was then remanded till
Tuesday,, next.
-cizisT INDIA FINANCE AND REVENUE ACCOUNTS.
voluminous account was issued yesterday of the
Alliance 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, £341,538. The net receipts within the year,
after deducting repayments, were £43,487,934. The charges
against income are as follows :—Charges of collection, in-
eluding cost and charges of salt and opium, £5,505,982;
allowances and assignments under treaties and engage..
meats, £1,640,466; allowances to district and village offi-
cers, £599,682; miscellaneous, £20,742; making the total
charges against income, £7,766,872, the receipts into the
severll Government treasuries being £35,721,062. The same
rLeturn shows that the excess of expenditure over income
455 been £50,628,