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

should adjourn to obtain further evidence before
coming to a decision. The inquiry was accordingly
adjourned.

PLEDGING A CHILD AT A PAWN-

BROKER'S.

Dr. Lankester, coroner for the central district of
Middlepex, prosecuted an inquiry at the St. Mary-
lebone Workhouse, yesterday, touching the death
of a male infant deposited in a pawnbroker's shop,

under 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
in the lobby. He hastily picked up the parcel,
but supposing, from feeling the contents, that it was
a dead dog, he instantly dropped it, and then
called the attention of the other assistants, one of
whom picked it up again and cut it open. Finding
the contents to be that of the deceased child, a
police-constable was fetched, and the body was re-
moved to the workhouse. He was quite sure the
parcel must have been placed there between the
hours of ten and eleven that night, but was totally
unable to say who placed it there.
Police-constable 209 D deposed that no satisfac-
tory information could be obtained as to where
child came from, but it was 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 con.iderable 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
occasional sunshine. Notwithstanding the unsea-
sonable coldness of the wind at times, the tempera-
ture has gradually risen, and there have been one or
two days 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-
factory, 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
speedily experienced. A large crop of wheat is not
anticipated, but a fair average growth is looked
for should 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 been 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 from the hop districts speak of con-

tinned 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
stock increasing, So far as the coming crop is con-
cerned, Sussex seems to be doing her share.—Sussex
Advertiser.

COUNTRY MABEL 16.

.4.-

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
requestat Friday's currencies.