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London, England, 1862-07-23 00:00:00

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PLEDGING A CHILD LIT A PATVN.

BROKER'S.

Dr. Lankester, coroner for the central district of
Middlesex, prosecuted an inquiry at the St. Mary-
lebon e Workhouse, yesterday, touching the death
of a male infant deposited in a pawnbrol ter's shop,
undin* mysterious circumstances.
Arthur Wallis deposed that he was an assistant
to Mr. Boyce, pawnbroker, 76, Lisson-grove. At
11 o'clock on last Saturday night, as he was in the
act of closing the outer door of the entrance to re-
ceive pledges, he was astonished to find a parcel,
carefully sewed up in a piece of black merino, lying
the lobby. He hastily picked up the parcel,
be t supposing, from feeling the contents, that it was
a c.lead dog, he instantly dropped it, and then
eau°, d the attention of the other assistants, one of
whom picked it up again and cut it open. Finding
the eo,ntents t 3 be that of the deceased child, a
police-constable was fetched, and the body was re-
moved fo the workhonse. He was quite sure the
parcel must have been placed there between the
hours often and eleven that night, but was totally
unable to s ay who placed .4t there.
Police-co nstable 209 D e'eposed that no satisfac-
tory inform ation ',could be obtained as to where
child came from, but it wa' believed that it be-
longed to the immediate neighbourhood.
Mr. Detrobe, resident surgeon of the workhouse
said he made a post-mortem examination of the
body. It was a fine healthy child, evidently born
alive, and death must have been occasioned from
violence and neglect. There was a mark of violence
over the left temple bone, and extensive bruises on
the right side of the crown of the head, producing
very conoiderable effusion of blood. The birth must
have taken place but a few hours before the body
was found at the pawnbroker's.
The coroner remarked upon the wide-spread crime

of infanticide, and the jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against some person or persons un-
known.

THE WEATHER AND CROPS.

The weather during the past week has been
broken, rough, and stormy, with heavy rains and
extremely boisterous winds, varied, however, with
omisional sunshine. Notwithstanding the unsea-
sonable coldness of the wind at times, the tempera-
ture h as gradually risen, and there have been one or
two day7s of warm air and bright sun, the general
tendency-, on the whole, being in the direction of
more summer-like weather than has lately been the
case. On Monday the temperature was decidedly
high and ,the sun bright and hot. It is to be hoped
that we are nearing a change, and that genuine
summer heat may yet be in store. All accounts
concur in speaking of warm weather as being the
one thing needed. Reports vary as to the character
and condition of the crops, but there seems to be a
general concurrence in the opinion that on ordi-
nary and ill-cultivated soils, the long continued
ungenial weather has made itself seriously felt. Of
the crops on better lands,• accounts are more satis-
iactory, but even on those the want of genial warmth
is felt, and apprehensions are freely expressed as to
what will be the result, unless warm weather be
spe•edily experienced. A large crop of wheat is not
anti;3ipatcd, but a fair average growth is looked
for sh ould the weather prove warm, dry, and season-
able from this time forward through harvest. The
hay-making has been greatly impeded by the wet
weather, but notwithstanding a good deal of pro-
gress has bean made, and a large breadth has been
carried in pretty fair condition, the high and drying
winds and occasional sunshine having been taken
advantage of to the full.
The accounts fiwom the hop districts speak of con-
tinued cleanliness and healthy appearance, but all
repeat the universal complaint of want of sun and
warmer temperature. The heavy winds have done
some damage to the bine, by battering it about and
' bruising it. On the whole, however, the reports
from Sussex and Kent are promising, and with fine
weather a fair crop may be hoped for. From Wor-
cestershire and Herefordshire the accounts are by
no means favourable. In those districts the plant
has suffered a good deal, and only a short growth
is expected. In parts of Kent the "mould" is
spoken of as having partially appeared. At this
period of the season every indication of attack, of
whatever kind, is anxiously watched, and as ill news
proverbially travels fast, the slightest rumour of
injury to the hop plant spreads rapidly, and, it need
scarcely be added, does not often lose by repetition.
' Prices appear to be hardening, and inquiries for
L stock increasing. So far as the coming crop is con-
cerned, Sussex seems to be doing her share.—Sussex
Advertiser.

COUNTRY NAREL S.

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LEEDS—TUESDAY.
The wheat trade quiet to-day, without alteration in the
prices, and very little business doing. Oats, beans, and
other articles unaltered.

LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
We have had a good steady consumptive demand at our
market to-day, at the full prices of this day se'nnight. Not
much doing in flour, at late rates. Indian corn in good
request at Friday's currencies.