The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-09 00:00:00

SHEFFIELD.

An inquiry with respect to the proceedings at
St. Philip's burial-ground, Wardsend, was com-
menced.on Saturday. The magistrates present were
11. Vickers, T. Dunn, J. J. Smith, E. Vickers, W.
Smith, and It. Bayley, Esqs.
In the first cases, that of Gretorex, aged 56, it
was shown that the body had been used for surgical
dissection, and that it was not usual to read the
burial service over dissected bodies.

Mrs. Harriet Shearman was sworn, and said—l
am the wife of Wm. Shearman, miller, Philadelphia
Mill-yard. My little boy Edward Charles died
about eight months ago ; he was then two years
and ono month month old. He was interred at the St.
Philip's ground on the 23d Sept. last. In conse-
quence of what I heard I went up to the ground on
Wednesday a little after noon. I went to a large
pit there was in the cemetery, and saw some coffins
there. Some of them had the lids off, and in one
these I recognised the features of my own child. I
got it taken out of the pit, with the coffin, and
caused it to be taken home to my own house. When
I got it home I examined the coffin, and found it
was the same wood. I found a piece of a " bump"
sheet which I had placed beneath the head of the
child. lam quite sure from the features, and from
this sheet, that it was my child.
Robert Dixon—l am a labourer in the service of
Mr. Oxspring, of Wardsend. I know Isaac Howard,
the sexton of this cemetery. I agreed with him to
go and live in his house in the graveyard. Shortly
after I had gone there I observed a curious smell in
the room above the stable. In consequence of the
strong smell I spoke to the sexton, but ho " passed
it off." I went and tried the stable door and found
it was locked. I then went upstairs and thrust
some three knots out of the deal boards, and looked
down into the stable. We had then been there two
or three weeks. I saw about 20 coffins—some of
persons about 15 and 16 and 10 years old—others
were those of still-born children. None of them ap-
peared to be the coffins of grown-up persons. I
lifted up the lid of one coffin, in the shed, about six
weeks ago. The night following the body had been
removed from the coffin, but the coffin remained in
the shed. I lifted the lid with my toe, and saw the
face of the body. It looked very fresh, as though
it had been buried a week or two. It looked like the
face of a body about 15 years of age. The witness
then spoke to seeing something done to the corpse
of the child, as if a limb was being cut off with a
knife. I could not be sure that he was cutting the
limb off the child, but he was doing something with
a knife. I mace found the stable door unlocked,
about three weeks ago, and saw about 20 coffins
and 24 coffin plate 3. I took the plates away, and
gave them to Mr. Oxspring. They are the same
he has given to the chief constable. I had pre-
viously told Mr. Oxspring, and was acting under
his advise in what I did.

BetVah Dixon, wife of the last witness—We
went to live at the house in the graveyard on
the 24th March. When we first went I noticed a
pecular smell in the room over the stable, and it
got worse. I spoke to the sexton about the smell,
and he said he would remove it—it would go away.
The smell made me ill, and I had a miscarriage in
consequence. I have seen the porter from the
Medical School go up the burial-ground. He came
more than once. I first saw him there on the
Thursday in the second week we went to live there,
which would be on the 3d April. I told the sexton
that the man had been to see him; and the man
came again on Friday morning, but did not see the
sexton. I told the sexton again, and he said he
had seen him, but he (the porter) had no money for
him, and until he got some money he (Howard)
should not let anything else go. I have seen a man
named "John," who assisted Howard, remove
coffins from graves, and [ut them in the open shed.
The sexton afterwards put them into the stable.
The men opened the graves and removed the coffins
from them. These graves were not distinguished
by mounds of earth. Judging from the size of the
coffins which " John" and Howard removed, I
should say that they were those of children about
10 or 12. About a fortnight ago I saw Howard
remove some coffins from the stable into the large
pit. He took some in the day time, and towards
evening he got the assistance of another man.
Mr. J. Barber, surgeon, was examined, and stated
the manner in whioh bodies were obtained for the
purposeS of dissection at tilt Medical School from
the Workhouse. No bodies were obtained except
by a legitimate way.
The inquiry was then adjourned until Friday
next.

ALLEGED ILL.TREATMENT AND STAR-
IATIOX OF A MILD.
On Saturday Mr. Humphreys, coroner for the
county of Middlesex, opened an inquest at the
Royal Standard public-house, on view of the body
of Ellen Rose, aged four months, the illegitimate off-
spring of a housemaid named Rose, in the service
of a lady at 44, Oxford-terrace, Paddington, which
presented a frightful spectacle of emaciation and
disease.

The mother, in her examination, deposed that she
had bestowed as much consideration and care over
the deceased as her circumstances would permit ;
but admitted that she had had another illegitimate
child besides the deceased, which died last April in
its fourth year; that she knew but little or nothing
of the fathers of them ; that they had never given
her anything towards their support.
Mrs. Pugh, 44, Shouldham-street, said, on the
21‘st May, her little daughter, by her directions,
took the deceased in to nurse, on the understanding
that it was healthy. On her return home in the
evening she was horrified to find it in a frightfully
emaciated condition, unquestionably from starvation,
and covered with sores caused by neglect and dirt,
so large that she could not cover some of them with
penny pieces. She at once admitted her determi-
nation not to keep the child in her house, and it
was removed to the house of a person named Mar-
shall, where it died. She believed death was occa-
sioned by starvation.
Harriett Marshall, 8, Croydon-street, deposed that
she got her living by selling matches and by relief
from the parish. She took charge of the child on
the 22d May, in a horrible state from filth and want
of proper food, and suffering from cough. She sent
for no doctor, but did the best she could with it.
The coroner and jury were of opinion that it was
a serious and disgraceful ease, and adjourned till
next week, to afford time for a post mortem exami-
nation of the body, and farther evidence respecting
1 the mother.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---June 7.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Meyer Jacobs, a young
German Jew, was charged before Mr. Leigh with
violently assaulting Jane Moss, a pretty girl, 16
years of age.
Mr. Maynard, from Mr. Beard's office, attended
in support of the complaint, and from his statement,
which was borne out by the injured girl and a wit-
ness, it appeared that she was in the employ of a
tailor in Fort-street, Spitalfields, who had numerous
hands engaged at the stitching machines; that on
the 20th of May last she was asking some person
in the workshop for a coat to finish off, when the
defendant, who is foreman there, desired her to go
instantly to her machine ; that she told him the
occasion of her absence from it, which he appeared
to consider unsatisfactory, and repeated his order,
adding, "If you do not, I'll throw the mochine at
you ;" that she then remarked, " You dare not do
so;" upon which he seized her by one arm and
twisted it, at the same time striking her five or six
blows on the bosom with his fist, the consequence
of which was that she fell to the floor, had a fit, and
became afterwards a patient at the London Hos-
pital. A certificate from Mr. Dyte, house-surgeon
there, showed that complainant had suffered from
contusions in the breasts and arm, but was not in
danger therefrom at present.
Mr. Vann for the defence observed that although
it was quite impossible to justify the foreman's con-
duct, it was yet unreasonable to suppose that be
committed such violence intentionally or without
provocation. The fact was, the girl had slapped
his face when he desired her to return to the
machine, and that act no doubt irritated him to lay
his hands upon her. The contusions might have
occurred from a subsequent struggle, and to a cer-
tain extent have been the result of accident. De-
fendant had been only four years in this country,
three of which he had passed in the service of his
present masters.
Mr, Maynard entirely disproved that the com-
plainant had assaulted the foreman or been imper-
tinent, and
Mr. Leigh, with strong remarks upon the gross-
ness of the outrage, inflicted a fine of £lO and all
cosis, or, in default, six weeks' imprisonment.
Defendant was locked up in default.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Michael Zumpf,
the Hungarian tailor, charged with stabbing John
Rachell, the Polish courier, was brought up on
remand.

It was now stated by a surgeon that the wound
must have been inflicted with a sharp instrument,
and he ,had found the point of a stiletto in the
dressing applied to the cut.
The prisoner denied that he had any knife or
other instrument in bis hand when he struck the
prosecutor.
Committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE.—A tall, respectable-looking
man, who gave the name of Robert Law, aged 31,
cattle-salesman, residing at Elm-villas, Upper Clap-
ton, was placed in the dock before Mr. Mansfield,
charged under the following extraordinary circum-
stances :

William Shorts, butler to Mr. Samuel Gregson,
of 32 Upper Harley-street, said—A little after two
o'clock this morning I heard a noise in the kitchen,
and went to see what it was, and found a man
there. I locked him in the room while I went to
ring the alarm bell. Whilst I was doing this he
broke open the door and came into the passage. I
attacked him and struck him a blow on the face
with niy fist. He returned the blow and followed
me into the pantry, and as we got in there I seized
the poker and struck him over the head with it
several times. He grappled with me, and got
me down, and said he would cut my throat
if I did net allow him to carry away the property.
At this time two female servants, who had heard
the alarm, came down, and seeing me struggling
with the prisoner, went to the street door, and
called " Police !" and " Murder !" The man still
struggled with me, and after throwing me he
rushed out at the door. I was so smothered in
blood that I could not identify the man, but the
prisoner is very much like him.
Cross-examined—The man seemed quite sober,
and fought very hard. When I struck him the
blood flew out from his nose. When I struck him
with the poker we were both in the dark. The
house was entered from the skylight about 20 feet
high, from which they had taken the top off. It is
over the kitchen. I cannot say how the man was
dressed. I will not swear that the prisoner is the
man I attacked.
Mr. Mansfield—Will you swear that the prisoner
is not the man?
Witness—l will not swear that he is not the man.
Fanny Hussey, cook in the same service, said—l
heard the alarm, and on going sown the kitchen
stairs saw a man struggling with the butler. Shorts
said, in the midst of the struggle, that there were
thieves in the house, and the man whom he was
contesting with said, " I am not a thief ; he has
insulted me, and will not let me go." I ran to the
street door and called " Police," and, whilst doing
so, the man ran out of the door and through the
gates into the Marylebone-road. The prisoner is
very much like the man, and when the police
brought him to the house the bruises on his face
appeared quite fresh and bleeding. The contents of
the cupboard had been turned over.
Cross-examined—l had the candle in my hand
when I came down after the alarm.
Elizabeth Edmonds, housemaid, said—l went
down with a candle in my hand, and saw a strug-
gling in the passage. The butler's face and shirt
were covered with blood. I asked him what was the
matter, and he said there were thieves. I ran to the
door and called " Police." The man ran out at the
time.

Felix Sims, 349 D—A little after two o'clock
this morning I heard " Murder" called. I ran as
far as Cleveland-street, and saw the prisoner, and
asked him where he had come from; in reply to
which he said from Portland-place. His face wasto
bleeding, and I told him he must come with
Harley-street. When we got there, the mornei
cook saw him she said, " That is the man."
was t
sergeant asked the butler if he (prisoner)
was.
man, when he said he was positive he moment
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me to
Cross-examined—Prisoner was drunk, but not
y drunk.
Mr. Mansfield (to butler)--Did you inflict many
blows upon the man P
Mr. Lewis addressed his
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The butler—Several, ansdwoanreshwipasfea;:hcelipnrcihseere.e"r
and called
Lane, 216 D, who siwooyaelepaoksitthivaetlymetornhinaving seen
the prisoner about
He then had
move on.fl .
asleep in a stateofintoxication. He wok
made him thebruises on his
face, and blood was owing from them. (The bruises
appeared fresh done as though from a person falling
'
down in a stave of intoxication, and the face coming
in contact with gravel.)
Mr. Mansfield discharged the prisoner, and said
that whatever expense or inconvenience he might
have been put to he had brought it upon himself
through his drunkenness.
It may be stated that on the police-sergeant look-
ing over the house, he found several housebreaking
implements, including
j =my; And chisel. the skylight hook and line,

THE LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

(From the Liverpool Albion of 'Saturday.)

The sales of cotton for the week, as made up on Thursday
evening, amount to 72,323 bales, of which speculators have
taken 14,290, exporters 12,060, and spinners 45,970 bales.
These large transactions, in which it will be perceived the
trade have very actively participated, have resulted in an
advance of id per lb in American descriptions, /d in Surat,
and id to din Egyptian and Brazil. The sales of Surat
cotton alone are 47,780 bales, the business in which has not
been confined to the stock in Liverpool, but has extended to
that at sea, a considerable quantity having been purchased
to arrive.

As the season wears on, opinion strengthens as to the
improbability of obtaining any weight of supply from Ame-
rica for some time, even should the issue of the impending
conflicts at Corinth and Richmond be of the most favour-
able character to the arms of the North, for it is felt that
the strife will not end there, and that it will require the
forces of the South to be utterly crushed before cotton is
released by the successes of the Federals ; and, in the event
of such a contingency, there is little doubt that the greater
part of the crop of last year will be given to the flames.
While, on the other hand, should the South bo successful in
the coming battles, they will not open a road for her com-
merce, as the blockade of her ports will, in all probability,
be closer than ever, the North haviag entire command of
the sea. India, as we pointed out a week or two since, so
far from assisting us to meet this American deficiency, falls
fat short of last year's exports, and the accounts to-day give
no hope of this want being made up later in the season.
Nor:is this to be wondered at, for last year we not only had
the crop. of that season, but the accumulations of those.,
preceding it; from this latter cause it is that our exports
from Bombay show such a decrease as compared with 1861.
The letters from Bombay of the 12th of May, received
this morning, give the export of cotton to Liverpool since
the departure of the previous mail (27th of April) as 53,000
bales against 56,000 bales in the corresponding period of
last year. The total at sea therefore this evening from
Bombay is 225,000 bales against 286,000 bales in IS6I. The
Beechworth was wrecked on leaving Bombay harbour, but
1,000 bales of cotton and wool had been landed from her up
to the 24th of May, and they continued working at her day
and night with a view to saying as much of the remainder
as possible.

In regard to the Bombay market, both for imports and
exports, we have now the full particulars of which we had
last week a synopsis by telegram. In regard to goods, im-
proved prices, say 1 to 2 annas per piece, had been obtained
in the face of only a moderate demand. Yarns were in
more request, especially water twist, at an advance of of
an anna per lb :
Nos. Price—Mule Yarns. Price—Water Twist.
20's per lb Sid .. 91d to nd
30's —101 d llid llid
40's .. -12 d

The improved accounts from this side, and the settlement
of the differences in America between the North and South
being again considered remote, prices of cotton had further
advanced. A day or two before the mail left, the cotton
which had been detained above by the southerly winds com-
menced to arrive, and by the 12th of May 800 craft had left
Bombay with about 20,000 candies on board, equal to about
35,000 bales, which would be exceedingly opportune for
completing orders. The delay in the arrival of these boats
and the early change in the monsoon would not allow them
to complete another voyage to the north and back, and
Bombay would thus be deprived of 80,000 to 100,000 bales
till the change of the monsoon to the northward in Sept,
The advance in prices had brought them in Bombay pretty
much on a par with those now ruling..in Liverpool, as here
shown :

Description of Price per candy. Price per Ib,
Cotton, in rupees. including freight.
Broach 245 to 250 .... 9d
Dhollua
Oonuawuttu .. > 215 235 .... 82d
Compta 222 .... 8d
Saugiuned Darwhar 290 .... 101 d

The succeeding mail from Bombay, of the 26th of May,
reached Jubal yesterday, and telegrams of that date were
received here this forenoon, which report that freights had
receded to 45s and cotton had advanced, our report says, 8r
since the 12th May ; but another, giving prices of Broach
and Dhollua, shows that the former had declined 2r and
the latter had advanced 3r. The decline in freight, how-
ever, would place shippers in a better position. A further
improvement had taken place in imports. Goods had ad-
vanced in price from la to ,ca per piece, with-large sales,
and twist had improved la per pound. Exchange 2s *I
per rupee.

Yesterday 7,000 bales were soli in Liverpool, and to-day
6,000, speculators and exporters doing half the business.
The market continues very strong, and large operations, in
addition to the above, are going on for cotton to arrive.
The following are the comparative prices of the three
descriptions of American fair and middling cotton, as
quoted yesterday, and at the corresponding period of last
year, with the imports and estimated stocks of all descrip-
tions : 1862 1861.

Fair. Middling. Fair. Middling.
New Orleans .. 141 d 124 d .... 82d 7 15-16 d per lb
Mobile
Uplands .. l3ld 121 d .... Bid 7 11-16 d „
Stocks at commencement
622,600 .. 545,679 bales.
of each year
Imported since Jan. 1
Stocks, June 6 :
American
Surat
Brazil
Egyptian 63,130
West Indian, &c .... 2,570
Other descriptions .... 1,540 — „

Totals 324,690 1,148,560 bales
At sea from America
From India . . 172,000

Total

COUN 7 .R 1 1114 BEL 2 05.

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LEICESTER-SATuRDAy.

The supply of wheat to-day at market was scarcely an
average for the season, but some good samples came to
hand. Farmers obtained the prices of last week. Wheat
sold as follows :—White, 56s to 608; red, 50s to 56s ;
old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley was in limited de-
mand—grinding, 30s to 325; malting, 38s to 41s per qr. ;
oats, 26s to ',Os per 24 stone. Beans were a quiet sale—
new, 40s to 43s ; old, 43s to 45s per 38 stone.
Fine flour, 42s I Seconds, 39s J Thirds, 378 per sack.