The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

THE SIIN, LONDON, 'IMONDAIT EVENING, NOVEMBER 73, 1862.

ferring a friendly nation into a self-styled 'neutral
power,' the nature of which neutrality is shown
in permitting an armament to follow them for the
detestable work of plundering and destroying
American ships, thus encouraging upon the high
seas an offence against neutral rights, on the plea
of which, in the case of the Trent, the British Go-
vernment threatened to plunge this country into

war.
Resolved,—That the outrage of consigning to
destruction by fire, without adjudication, British
and American property together, is an aggravation
of the offence against the rights of neutrals, and
ought to be denounced as a crime by the civilised
nations of the earth.
"Resolved,—That this chamber has heard with
amazement that other vessels are fitting out in the
ports of Great Britain, to continue the work of de-
struction begun by the Alabama ; an enormity that
cannot be committed on the high seas without
jeopardising the commerce and peace of nations.
" Resolved,—That it is the duty of this chamber
to warn the merchants of Great Britain that a re-
petition of such acts as the burning of the Brilliant,
by vessels fitted out in Great Britain, and manned
by British seamen, cannot fail to produce the most
widespread exasperation in this country, and hence
they invoke the influence of all men who value peace
and goodwill among nations to prevent the departure
of other vessels of the character referred to from
their ports, and so avert the calamity of war.
" Resolved,—That it is the desire of this cham-
ber, as it is the interest of all its members, to cherish
sentiments of amity with the people of Great Bri-
tain, to maintain those cordial relations which have
led to profitable intercourse, and to strengthen the
ties that knit them together in mutual courtesy
and respect.
"Resolved,—That copies of the foregoing pre-
amble, and the resolutions be sent to the Hon. Sec-
retat y of State and the Hon. Secretary of the Navy
of the United States, and to the Boards of Trade of
London and Liverpool, and that the Secretary of
State be requested to transmit copies of the same
to the diplomatic agents of the United States for
distribution in other commercial countries."
The disturbances in Crawford County, Ohio,
caused by the attempts to enforce the draft, still
continued. A judge named Hall had been arrested
for resisting the draft, and sent to Fort Mansfield.
The ringleaders denounced the Federal Government,
and cheered for Jefferson Davis. One man was
arrested and taken to gaol, but the sheriff refused
to imprison him, and he was therefore released.
San Francisco, California, dates are to the 21st of
October. The money market was very tight. Some
capitalists were disposed to allow their money to be
idle until financial affairs in the cast became more
settled.
The steamer Pacific had arrived at San Francisco,
with 400 passengers and 450,000 dols. in treasure
from Oregon, and 20,000 dols. from British
Columbia.
The steamers Moses Taylor, for San Juan, and
the St. Louis, for Panama, with 700,000 dols. for
New York and 470,000 dols. for England, sailed on
the 21st of October.

tonous, yet have always met with the full approval i
of his superiors. An evil genius, however, seems
to preside over the fortunes of lieutenants of the
navy serving in responsible positions at Ports-
mouth, and in illustration of this fact it is only
necessary to point out the senior lieutenants of her
Majesty's ships Asia and Victory. The former
wears the Artic medal and possesses every claim
for promotion after long service as a lieutenant.
The latter has been a Lieutenant 13 years, three of
which have been as senior of the Victory.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :--Edward H. Hills, master,
to the Shannon ; Dove Farrant, master, to the
Trident ; James Driver, supernumerary in the
Asia, promoted to chief engineer ; Thomas P. IV.
Nesham, midshipman, to the Sutlej.

brobght to bearTupon them. It was a:very serious
offence charged against the prisoner.
The Chairman (Mr. Barclay) said they thought
they might liberate the prisoner on finding two
sureties of £5O each, and entering into his own
recognisances of £lOO to appear next Saturday.

INFANT MO.R7ALITY tN THE METRO-
POLIS .711BOUCiff SUM CA. TIO.N,

Yesterday an inquiry was held at the Ship Ta-
vern. Limehouse, by Mr. Raffles Walker, the de-
puty coroner, respecting the death of Thomas
Walker, an infant, six months old, which had been
suffocated under the following circumstances :
Mary Anne Walker, 1, Ring-court, Park-street,
said that the deceased was placed in bed on Thurs-
day night, and slept between herself and her hus-
band. Her husband had gone to bed at seven or
eight o'clock, not sober. He had not been sober all
the afternoon. The next morning she found the
deceased child cold, and apparently dead. She went
for the doctor, who pronounced life extinct.
Dr. Andrews said the child died from suffocation.
Parts of the body were livid. Deprivation of air
by being covered over with bedclothes would cause
death.
The Coroner said that it was high time the pub-
lic attention should be directed to the great morta-
lity amongst infants arising from suffocation. He
had recently held nine inquests in two days upon
children who had thus lost their lives. The parents
almost invariably attributed the death of their chil-
i dren under such circumstances to convulsions, lest a
suspicion of infanticide should attach to them—but
there was no doubt that the carelessness—or the
over-fondness—of the parent was in fault. He
(the Coroner) did not agree with those who ascribed
the suffocation of children to design, for he ob-
served that but comparatively few cases occurred
during summer, but that the numbers invariably
rose during the winter, and that the fatality oc-
curred principally on unday and Monday morn-
ings. The causes appeared to be these—on the
approach of cold weather parents in their anxiety
to keep the children warm wrapped them
up in heavy bed clothes, so as to deprive them of
all access to pure air, and with delicate infants
death as surely resulted as if they had been burked.
Secondly, on Saturdays parents of the lower order
spent their time between marketing and the public-
houses, and returning home lete and tired, overlaid,
and so killed the children. Sundays, amongst the
same class, was devoted to heavy eating and drink-
ing, and even more than on Saturday nights chil-
dren were crushed and asphyxiated. It was there-
fore a matter of some moment that at the present
time parents should be put on their guard with re-
spect, not only to the danger of destroying the lives
of their children, but of involving themselves in the
suspicion, however unfounded, of infanticide.
In the particular case under notice a verdict was
returned, " That the deceased died from suffocation,
but how the suffocation was caused there was no
evidence to show."