The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

Inquests on Children Found Dead.

Last evening Dr. Lankester held an inquest in the board
room of the Marylebone Workhouse on the body of a female
child which was found dead under the following circum-

stances:—

Mr. Miller, proprietor of the Hope Pole Tavern, Edgware-
road, deposed that a fortnight ago he had a servant in his
employ named Jane Lovett, aged 19, who had then been in
his service six months. A fortnight ago she was taken ill,
and suspecting she was in the family-way, he sent for Mr.
Grant, surgeon, who merely said she might have had a
miscarriage, but that at that time she was suffering from
diarrhoea. As it was probable the girl would be ill for
some time,Mrs.Millor took her to her parents' home, Gotten-
green, in Kent. On arriving at the Sevenoaks station the
girl told Mrs. Miller that when she got back to the Hop
Pole she was to look in the far corner of the room, where
she (the girl)had slept, and there, she would find something.
Mrs. Miller did so, and found the dead body of a female
infant wrapped up in two skirits. He (Mr. Miller) then
gave information to the police.
In answer to the-Coroner, witness said his servant wore
a large crinoline, and that was the reoson why she was not
sooner detected.

Dr.Lankester said that as the use of crinolines diminished
so did child murdor, and the burning of women diminished
in a like proportion.
Dr. Beale, divisional surgeon, said the child had been
dead a fortnight when he saw it at the Marylebone Work-
house. Since then he had made a post mortem examina-
tion, but although the lungs partly floated in water, the
body was in such a state of decomposition that it was im-
possible to say whether or not it had been born alive. Tho
child was evidently of the full period of gestation.
Inspector Baldock said that on Saturday last he appre-
hended Jane Levett, on a warrant, at Gotten-green, Kent.
At present she was too ill to attend either at that or the
magistrate's court.
The jury returned an open verdict.

Yesterday morning Mr. Humphreys, coroner for East
Middlesex, held an inquest at the Green Man Tavern, High-
street, Hoxton, upon the body of a male child, supposed to
have been murdered.

Mary Ann Slow said that on Friday evening last she was
paying a visit to a friend in Harland-square, Kingsland-
road. Upon coming away from the house she saw in Dun-
stan-street a parcel lying on the pavement. She went into
a shop and asked the people to take it up and examine it.
They did so, and found that it contained a child. The
police were called, and they carried it away.
H. Williams, 102 N, said that he was called at 9 o'clock
on Friday evening to Dunstan-street. He found a large
crowd assembled looking at the body of a child. It had
been wrapped up in the skirt of a gown of printed cotton
and in a black petticoat. He had not been able to find any
clue to the persons implicated in the affair.
Dr. Cluen Griffith said that he examined the body of the
child. It had been three weeks born, and was therefore very
much decomposed. It was a very fine male child, large and
fully developed. The decomposition was so great that he
was not able to say positively how it came by its death ; but
he saw no reason whatever why it should not have lived.
The Coroner said that it was singular that in these cases,
which had become so numerous, no clue, except in one in-
stance, had been obtained to the guilty parties. Under the
circumstances the jury should return an open verdict, but
the police could follow up their inquiries in the matter.
The Jury returned a verdict, " That the child was found
dead, but how it came by its death the medical evidence,
owing to the decomposition of the body, failed to prove."

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER-JULY 29.

Since last market day the weather has been fine for the
harvest, and at'times very hot. The supply of wheat was
not large, but the trade was languid, and the advance of
last Saturday was lost. A sample or two of the new crop
was sold, quality not fine. In spring corn but little doing
for want of supplies.

Wheat, white 42s 46s Beans, Maza0an......33s
red 3.ie 42s Middle and small._ 358 40a
Barley 2es 34. Peas, white. 358 38a
Oat. ...208 258 grey ........36s 38s

NORTHAMPTON—Jtax 29.

New white wheat, 408 to 45s ; new red, 39s to 42s ; old
white, 39s to 44s ; old red, 38s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley
for malting, 31s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 31s per 30
stone. Oats, old, 25s to 26s ; new, 18s to 24s per 24 stone.
Beans, old, 36s to 40s ; new, 35s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas,
33s to 38s per 36 stone.

M-JuLY 28.

)ry dull, and prices may bo
last week. There were a few
1, but we cannot say whether
corn of all descriptions firm
iness slack.

Peas, Partridge 36$ 384
White ...... s 34s
8.. Bing 38s 42s
Dun 31s 355
dit o, new —$ —4
Beans, Tick, old 3is 374
new. —a s
Harrow ricks 358 —s
new —s
Mangan 33s 36$