The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-09 00:00:00

THE ESHER MURDER.

TRIAL OF THE MURDERESS.—(THIS DAY. )
GUILDFORD, Wednesday. This morning, at the
assizes held here for the county of Surrey, Mary An*
Brough, aged 43, was indicted in the Crown Court, be-
fore Mr. Justice Erle, upon six several indictments, fo r
the wilful murder of her children, Georgiana Brough,
Caroline Brough, William Brough, Henry and Harriet
Brough, twins, and George Brough, at Esher, in this
county, upon the 10th of June.
The prisoner was brought down from Horsemonger-
lane, in the custody of Mr, Keen, the governor, by the
train which left London at 7 o'clock, prior to the trial
commencing. She was placed in a room at the rear of
the court ; she was respectably attired in good new;
mourning. She did not seem to take much notice of
any one around her, beyond occasionally looking round
with a troubled and somewhat wild expression of •oun-
tenance. The court, which is. not over large, was most
inconveniently crowded.
Precisely at 9 o'clock, Mr. Justice Erle took his seat,
and the prisoner was placed at the bar. Upon the
several indictments being read, she, with a firm voice,
pleaded not guilty ; and having done so to each of the
indictments, she sat down in the dock apparently not at
all affected.

She is a woman of a dark and sallow complexion,
about the middle height, and not of a very prepossess-
ing appearance.

Mi. Bodkin and Mr. Robinson appeared for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins were
for the defence.

Mr. Bodkin, in his opening address to the jury, de'
tailed the circumstances under which the murders were
committed by the prisoner. The defence he knew that
was about to be set up was not a denial of any of the
facts, but that the unfortunate creature was, at the time
of committing the act, in a state of insanity. About
that, they (the prosecutors) had no evidence. She Was
seen upon the afternoon preceding the dreadful night
at the cottage, and there was nothing in her manner
then that seemed strange. It appeared that she put the
children to bed, and also wound up the elwk in the
evening. It seemed likewise that she contemplated
suicide, as she had written a letter to her eldest dee&
ter, who was in place, leaving her some things in a box
in which the letter was found. She denied in letter
the improper conduct imputed to her, and said that her
husband intended to get money out of the man with
whom she was accused of having an improper intimaef •
The learned counsel having explained the law of lunacy
in criminal cases, concluded his address.
Henry Woolgar, examined by Mr. Robinson, corro•
borated the statement of the learned counsel.
The evidence, with which all our readers are familiar,
having been concluded,
Mr. Edwin James rose to address the jury for the
prisoner.
The trial was not concluded when we went to press

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Aug. B.—There has been a fair business
done in cotton yarns, and prices are a shade higher.
Prices asked for 20's water twist and refused last week
have been readily conceded this morning. Good 00
mule, India quality, has been in request ; but, in fact,
the inquiry has seldom been of a more general character,
the qualities comprehended in it embracing descriptions
suitable to most of the export markets as well as the
home trade. Spinners mostly quote the advance obtained
at id. per lb., though sales have been. effected at a little
more and a little less than this improvement. The state,
of the cloth market has not been so satisfactory, and
manufacturers having to buy their yarn complain
the upward tendency of the prices they have to give.
Most kinds of cloth suitable to the home trade, including
printers and domestics, are Steady. In the heavier
kinds of long-cloths, T-cloths, and domestics, prices are
quoted in some cases rather in favour of producers; but
in the large class of goods taken for India prices are
drooping and very irregular. The production for this
important market continues to be large, but the prices
offered in many cases are so unremunerative that maker°
have withdrawn their goods.
One of the suspensions we alluded to on Saturdalt
that of Mr. Ames Broadbent, smallware manufacturer,
and shipper to the Brazils, turns ant to be somewhat
more important than wat at first supposed, the liabilitia
being named at 55,0001.
LEEDS, Aug. B.—The markets in the cloth-halls tet:
day have been steady, and an average amount of cloth
has changed hands. Prices are firm, and the stocks,
hand are within a very moderate compass. The weart
ther on Sunday, yesterday and today has been all thhee
could be desired for the harvest, and the ripening oft
crops is going on rapidly, though it will even with
continuance of the same kind of weather, be ten del,
or a fortnight before any large quantity of wheat is ready
for reaping in this district. One effect of the fine wlee
ther has been to check the upward tendency of the Pr',o
ot corn in the markets, but the advance obtained
London at the close of last week has almost been realise-1a
here to-day. A continuance of the present weetbll:
will, doubtless, produce a fall in the price of breadetllP'

NO_NEY MA .R KET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY. TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade.
The market closed firmly at previous rates. The
sales comprised 4,000 American, 400 Pernam
and Maranham at 61d. to 80., 300 Egyptian at
6d. to 8/d., 300 Surat at 2id. to 4d. per lb. Rail-
way Shares were dull at rather lower prices.
There was more firmness yesterday afternoon in
the rates at which bills of exchange were drawn
Upon the Continental cities, but with very little
doing. Trieste was a shade lower. Paris, 90 days,
Was done at 25 25 to 30 ; Amsterdam at 11 17 to
17i, Hamburg at 13 6 to 7, and Trieste at 12 28
to 34,
Most of the Australian gold has been taken for
exportation, and even that, per M,Away, delivered
is yesterday, has been mostly taken for shipment.
The gold by the American steamer, being chiefly
fine, has been melted and sent into the Bank.
Mexican dollars have been in demand at ss. 2d.
per ounce, Spanish Pillar Ferdinand dollars at ss.
3d., and Carolus at 6s.
The Hon. East India Company drew bills, dur-
ing the fortnight ended yesterday, to the amount
of 133,703/. 14s. 4d.
The parties interested in the illegally created
sterling bonds of Peru have made application to
the Committee of the Stock Exchange for permis-
sion to have them quoted in the official list, as the
object for which they took these securities cannot
be attained unless the public is entrapped into the
buying of them. Once open the door to such mal-
practices, and all protection for the English
creditors of foreign states is gone. A well-
founded jealousy exists in England at any
attempt to increase the permanent debt, except
by direct authority of Parliament, and how
much more necessary is it, therefore, to resist such
facile means of adding to debts abroad? The new
bonds which the Peruvian agents are now attempt-
ing to circulate here represent a home stock
granted to some extent in compensation of claims
for damage to property during the civil war, but
enormously exaggerated beyond the amounts that
Were really due, Court favourites who bought up
the claims being, of course, particularly successful
in getting them recognised. In this manner a
very large home debt was saddled upon the Peru-
vian people, which a future Government may well
feel justified in cutting down. Other of the new
bonds have reference to a railway contract that is
• Partly dependent upon their realisation for success,
and when we consider all these circumstances,
and the warm interest which the Earl of Cla-
rendon has taken in the matter, we think no
bondholder, however he may, from imper-
fect information, have allowed the parties
interested in the new stock to gain his tacit ac-
quiescence to a paltry compromise, under the
guise of an increased sinking fund, will feel bound
Morally or legally to continue that acquiescence.
At the Australian Consols meeting to-day, it
W'as agreed tdo re-organise the Company, with ail
accession of members of the Shareholders' Com-
mittee to the Board of Direction.
. The English Funds have been very fiat, princi-
pally upon the indication of a change of weather,
but there was an absence of any definite foreign
news. The supply of stock being so much larger
• recently, owing to sales by the broker acting for
the Court of Chancery, and also on account it is
. said of the Irish Banks, makes the jobbers shy of
puchasing more unless at a reduction, and the set-
tlementon the 17th inst. will consequently be looked
for with interest, if not doubt, though the account
is supposed by many to be bullish. Consols have
been 921 to 92-i for Transfer, and 92g to for
Account. We shall see in a few days whether a
contango arises. Bank Stock is firm at 209 to 210,
Exchequer Bills are ls. discount to 2s. premium,
and the Bonds are /to g premium. There is
rather more ease in the market, another instalment
of 25 per cent., say 500,0001., having been paid
yesterday upon Messrs. Rothschild's contract.
The day of settlement in the Cumberland Her-
. ratite Iron Ore Company's Shares on the Stock-
Exchange is fixed for Monday, the 14th inst.
Foreign Securities are quiet and rather heavy.
Peruvian
zeilian 4i- per Cents. are 69 to 69i, and Bra-
New Bonds steady at 941. Russian 5 per
~..ents. at 991, being at the full previous value.
Sardinian Bonds have realised 85 to 851. Spanish
Neer Deferred are weakpr at i9g, and the Passive
at 41. Dutch 2i per Cents. are at 601, and the
4 per Cents. 92, being lower.
The following
stocks are the nominal prices of foreign
:---Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 6i ; Mexi-
can, 24i to 24i ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 51 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 39 to
4ie ;. Russian 5 per Cents., 97 to 99 ; Ditto 4 per
83 to 85 ;
; Ditto 3 Spanish New Deferred, 19 to
per Cents., 39i to 40 ; Ditto Certi-
4Leates, 5 to 5i ; Ditto Passive, 4 to 41.
SIA moderate business is doing in English Railway.
liaaere_s, but sales still predominating a further de-
-I'B%l has taken place in the principal lines. This
ost observable in the instances of Great North-
reat Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
ce"Filton, North-Western, and Midland. As ex-
-13,P,',1(3ns must be noted, Eastern Counties, North
gf"1812, and Shrewsbury and Birmingham are
'"4-_,111,,, and Edinburgh and Glasgow, together
witla Edinburgh, Perth and Dunde, have ad-
beeced, The Foreign and Colonial lines have
ri very little dealt in. Great Luxembourg are
ateady, and Northern of France higher.
Alining Shares are dull, and Portgibaud are
lower. In Joint Stock the transactions have been
very limited, and prices nominal. Land Shares
are without particular variation, and Crystal
Palace are not lower.

13RIT1SH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES
( From the Ogcial List. )

Bank Stock
209
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
93 10}
1 3 per Cent Consols Annuities
92a2 / a A
31 Per Cent. Annuities . 931 4 A 3
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 4i
India Bonds, £lOOO
Consols for Account 17th August 92/ g i
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£IOOO
Small 4
.pm par
Exchequer Bonds Scrip 9B/
Ditto 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto Small . 99}
Ditto New, 1852, 44 per Cent .... 946
Peruvian Bonds/4h per Cent. 69 i 9
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St 99i
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B5 5
Spanish Bonds. 3 p r Cent —
Spanish New De'Prred, 3 per Cent. 193 1
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Spanish Committee cert. of Coup. not fun 5/ i p c
Dividends on the abode payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates.......

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols 9 2 *.
Ditto August Account

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 4 per mille discount (according to the last triff),
Which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per
nce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.07 ;
nand, the exchange at Paris on London at short being
h 5.00, it follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg,
the price of gold is 4211 per mark, which, at the English
duesprice of 3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold,
an exchange of 13.31 ; and, the exchange at
Hamburg on London at short being 13.41, it follows
that gold is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London than in
1 3,amburg. The course of exchange at New York on
~4
• ondon for bills at 60 days' sight is 1092 per cent., and,
ine Par of exchange between England and America be-
g 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is
nominally 0.17 per cent, in favour of England ; and,
after making allowance for charges of transport and
difference of interest, the present rate leaves a trifling
Profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.
%PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Evening--.. Three deaths have
ocurrod "in the Sound on board the hospital-ship An-
- worneda since the death of Sergeant Taylor on Friday
namely, two children, named Elizabeth Murphy and
Edward Barnsley on Saturday last, and James Joseline.
60th Regiment, to-day. There are now 16 sick cases on
board ; twelve of those are cholera cases, of which four
are almost hopeless—viz, two soldiers, one woman, and
one sailor. Five cases of diarrhcea are under treatment
on board the receiving-ship Endymion.
Tau Bn
t ITISH CRUISERS IN THE BALTIC.--A letter
"001 Raniburgh of the sth, states that the governments
of the neutral maritime States of Northern Europe, with
, Prussia at their head, are on the point of joininge,' wan
urgent representation to the British Government oinn the
interference of our cruisers with their merchant Ifp
J-ile interference complained of is the ve neet:ir9;
Praotict of starching swiptcted vessels for contraband
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