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

STOCKPORT.

The condition of Stockport, which is partly in
Lancashire and partly in Cheshire, is probably not
so bad as Blackburn or Preston, but it stands next
to them. It is dependent almost entirely on the
cotton trade. There are a few hat manufacturers
and other trades not affected very much by
the present crisis, but nine-tenths of the inha-
bitants are connected with cotton. The number
of mills in the borough is sixty-nine, which
usually employ 17,038 hands, men, women,
and children. In good times the weekly wages of
these hands would average about half-a-guinea per
head, or a total of nearly £9,000 per week. Of the
number of hands only 5,068 are this week on full
time, and their earnings are much reduced through
the poor material which they have to use. The
number working short time is 5,770, and those
wholly unemployed are now 6,200. Including other
trades affected by the condition of the cotton crisis,
there are out of employment about 7,000 persons.
The loss of weekly wages is estimated at £5,000,
though some make it much more. The number of
persons in the receipt of parochial pay in the Union
is this week 5,406, and in the borough alone about
4,500. The population of the Union, which in-
cludes Hyde, is 94,360, and that of the borough
about 55,000 ; consequently, one person in 171 in
the Union is on the parish, and in the borough
nearly one in 12 of the population are in receipt of
parish pay. In the borough there is a good organisa-
tion of relief ; 10 district committees and a central
committee are in full operation. During the past
week they have spent £177 2s 9d in relieving
3,313 cases, including 11,819 individuals. The
average income of the recipients is only 91-d per
week. The relief has been given in bread, 18,1541 b ;
soup, 6,254 ; meat, 2,0951 b ; rice, 5351 b ; and por-
tions of coal. The total sum spent from the com-
mencement of operations is nearly £2,500, contri-
buted chiefly in weekly subscriptions. The donations
of the Lord Mayor and others have enabled the
committees to enlarge their operations. By these
means the people have been preserved from starva-
tion and disorder. There never was a time when
crime was so small in the borough ; when the magi-
strates and police had so little work. The working
classes are unusually quiet and orderly, and show
no disposition to complain, or accuse Government or
their employers of any fault in the matter. By
means of local and distant charity the crisis may be
endured if it does not extend beyond the suwmer ;
but if it should continue till the next winter the
consequences will be serious.

INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF
DEVONSHIRE AS CBANCELLOR OF THE
UNIVERSIZY OF C.AItIB.RID,9E.

CAMBRIDGE, SATURDAY.
The proceedings in connection with the installa-
tion of his grace to the high office to which he has
been appointed may be said to have commenced to-
day, although the note of preparation has been
sounding for some time past. The duke, accom-
panied by his daughter, Lady Louisa Cavendish,
arrived at Trinity College at half-past five o'clock,
and alighting at the great gates, or principal
entrance, proceeded across the court to the lodge,
where he was received by the Master of Trinity
College (of which his grace is a member), whose
guest he will be during his stay in Cambridge. A
notification of the Chancellor's arrival was imme-
diately conveyed to the Vice-Chancellor (the Rev.
Dr. Phillips) at Queen's College, and he, with
others of the University authorities who were in
waiting, immediately set out to wait upon the
Chancellor. Arrived at the lodge, the Vice-Chan-
cellor formally resigned the insignia of his office,
and the authorities having paid their respects to his
grace, withdrew. The maces were left at the Chan-
cellor's abode, as is usual when that officer is in
residence, as an official sign of his authority.
_ _

In the evening the Master of Trinity entertainad
a distinguished party to meet his grace at dinner.
Visitors have already arrived here in large num-
bers, and many more may be expected before the
congregation appointed for Monday, in order to
confer honorary and other degrees. It has been
finally notified that these will be conferred on the
following celebrities :
Honorary Doctor of Laws.—The Duke of Argyll,
the Marquis of Bristol, the Marquis of Hart-
ington, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Brougham,
Lord Stanley, Lard Sohn Manners, Lord Bel-
per, Sir Edmund W. Head, Bart., Sir H. C. Raw-
linson, K.C.8., Sir James Emerson Tennent,
K.C.G., Sir Hugh M'Calmont Cairns, Sir W. Arm-
strong, C. 8., M. Chevalier, Mr. Selwyn, Q C.,
M.P., The Astronomer Royal, Professor Faraday,
Dr. Acland (RegiusProfessor of Physic, Oxon), Mr.
Faisbairn.

Doctor of Music—M. Meyerbeer.
Most of the above-named have already arrived,
and are guests at the various colleges.

SUNDAY.

His Grace the Chancellor attended Divine service
at Great St. Mary's (the University Church) this
afternoon. The sermon was preached by the Lord
Bishop of Chester, Dr. Graham, formerly Master of
Christ's College, in this university. The text, John
iv., 38. The church was densely crowded. The
Chancellor occupied a seat upon the throne, and was
surrounded by the heads of houses and other privi-
leged persons. The right rev. prelate made some
feeling and graceful allusions to the late lamented
Prince Chancellor, and some happy ones as to
the eminent fitness of his grace to follow so illus-
trious and venerated a predecessor.

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THE FLOOD IN THE FENS•

LYNN, SUNDAY NIGHT.

Though a month has gone past no remedy has yet
been provided to avert the sad disaster to the county.
Every effort that has been hitherto made to stop the
waters from the sea from rushing up the cut has
failed. Bridges have been knocked down, sunken
barges violently thrown out of the current, and about
60,000 sacks filled with earth thrown in without any
benefit. The Dutchman's dam (which was being
formed by the use of " cradles," a kind of wicker-
work clunch, and earth in bags, about 500 tons of
the former and 2,000 of the latter being deposited
daily) was abandoned just on the eve of success, and
a cofferdam was commenced about a fortnight to-day.
This cofferdam, constructed on a new principle of
Mr. Hawkshaw's, C.E., is to all appearance very
strong, and when completed will probably be cap-
able of resisting almost any force; but we cannot
hold out any prospect of its completion for at least
another fortnight. Some few of the panels have
been dropped into their places between the piling,
but they have not been driven more than 43- feet
into the earth. Tbis is hardly a sufficient depth to
prevent so strong a current from scouring beneath
them, and so it is intended to make an effort to drive
them still deeper. When they are all put into
their places it is intended to strengthen them by
driving some sheet-piling in front. To-day at
suitable intervals of the tide the divers were down
filling up the bottom of the dam with sacks of earth,
which were being laid with considerable care to
prevent the water from soaking through. At
length a resident engineer has been appointed,
in the person 'of Mr. Lynn, C.E., under II
whose direction the extensive works in Wis-
bech Fort were carried out several years ago. Five
or six hundred men are at work, some making the
famous coffer dam, others preparing the materials,
in carpentering and blacksmiths' work, others
fencing the sides of the cut, where extensive slips
have been and are being made.
On Saturday the engineer to the Magdalen Fen
Commissioners (Mr. A. Saunders) called the atten-
tion of the Middle Level Commissioners to the fact
that another hole had been scoured about seven feet
through the cutting of the east bank, opposite the
first breach that was made in the western bank.
Mr. Lynn, C.E., at once proceeded to the spot in-
dicated with Mr. Saunders, and promised that im-
mediate steps should be taken to stop the scour
and fill up the hole. The whole of the east bank
for several miles is still in a very inse-
cure state from the want of puddling, as all
above the level of the land the bank is com-
posed of a spongy, turfy soil, and when the
tide is up the water is perhaps 15 feet above the
level of the fen land, and considerably more in some
parts. It is gratifying to find that for the present
all fear as to the hole opposite the breach, still
open, has been removed, immense quantities of cliff
stone and thousands of sacks, filled with earth,
having been put in. Workmen are still engaged
in this employment to prevent it again scouring.
It is intended to carry off some of the back
waters by way of Well Creek so soon as the channel
is stopped up by the completion of the dam. Here
a number of men are at work clearing out the creek
for this purpose. This is about the only remnant
that is left of the mode formerly adopted for drain-
ing the 140,000 acres of Middle Level.
The tides began to lift yesterday, and on the 12th
they wll probably be at a very great height. The
greatest attention will be requisite to preserve the
country on the east side of the dam from inunda-
tion.

The Middle Level Commissioners have agreed to
meet the various bodies desirous of having the bill
now before Parliament amended, for conference
thereon, on Thursday next.

THE CEMETERY REVELATIONS AT
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 R. 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 serv;ee 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 one 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 he 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 uf
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 once found the stable door unlocked,
about three weeks ago, and saw about 20 coffins
and 24 coffin plates. 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 advice in what I did.

Bethiah 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 ho 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. Ho 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 lut 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 which bodies were obtained for the
purposes of dissection at the Medical School from
the Workhouse. No bodice were obtained except
by 'a legitimate way.
The inquiry wus then adjourned until
Friday
next.

ALLEGED ILL.T.REATMENT AND STAR-
VATION OF 21 CHILD.

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
bad 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 4pril 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
21st 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 starvatio4.
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 case, and adjourned till
next week, to afford time for a post mortem exami-
nation of the body, and farther evidence respecting
the mother.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--June 7.
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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 he
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
costs, or, in default, six weeks' imprisonment.
Defendant was locked up in default.

MARL B OROUG H-STREET.--Michael Zumpf,
the Hungarian tailor, charged with stabbing John
Rachell, the Polish courier, was brought up on
remana.

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 his 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 my 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 not allow him to carry away the property.
At this time two female servants, who had heard
the alarm, came duwn, 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 Yhe
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 bath 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 down 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 was
bleeding, and I told him he must come with
me
to
the
Harley-street. When we got there, the mone,n The
cook saw him she said, " That is the naayl-
sergeant asked the butler if he (prisowner) was the
man, when he said he was positive he as.
drunk, but not
Cross-examined—Prisoner was
beastly drunk. you inflict many
Mr. Mansfield (to butler)—Did
blows upon the man ?
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for the prisoneras a "
and calied
1 o'clock that morning sitting
intoxication. He woke hies up
216 D, who swore positively to having seen
He then had the bruises on his
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state aboutof
move
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from them. (The bruises
face, and thoughg done asfrom appeared fresh a person falling
do;m in a state of intoxication, and the face coming
made
hieiblood was
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 the skylight hook and line,
jemmy, and chisel.