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 Ann
Brough, aged 43, was indicted in the Crown Court, be'
fore Mr. Justice Erle, upon six several indictments, for
the wilful murder of her children, Georgiana Brough,
Caroline Brough, William Brough, Henry and Harriet
Brough, twins, and George Brough, at Esher, in az°
county, upon the 10th of June.

The prisoner was brought down from Horaemonger"
lane, in the custody of Mr. Keen, the governor, by t.ll
train which left London at 7 o'clock, prior to the trise
commencing. She was placed in a room at the rear- 0
the court ; she was respectably attired in good eel
mourning. She did not seem to take much notice °A
any one around her, beyond occasionally looking roan':
with a troubled and somewhat wild expression of soon
tenance.
.The court, which is not over large, was 'l2°9
inconveniently crowded.
Precisely at 9 o'clock, Mr. Justice Erle took his "it
and. the prisoner was placed at the bar. Upon
.the
several indictments being read, she, with a firm 1/431Ce'
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 eompleli°7
about the middle height, and not of a very preposs!s
ing appearance,

Mi. Bodkin and Mr. Robinson appeared for the prci'
secution, and Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins wet°
for the defence.
Mr. Bodkin, in his opening address to *the jurY, de;
tailed the circumstances under which the murders Wert
committed by the prisoner. The defence he knew :1.h140
was about to be set up was not a denial of any cu "-
facts, but that the unfortunate creature was, at the ti!:
of committing the act, in a state of insanity. A1).71,4
that, they (the prosecutors) had no evidence. She Jilt
seen upon the afternoon preceding the dreadful mger
at the cottage, and there was nothing in her maim
then that seemed strange. It appeared that shet to
children to bed, and also wound up the clock in ,ea
evening. It seemed likewise that she contemplavh,
suicide, as she had written a letter to her eldest daug'%
ter, who was in place, leaving her some things in a /
in which the letter was found. She denied in that letterr
the improper conduct imputed to her, and said that 111,
husband intended to get money out of the man v",„
whom she was accused of having an improper intiteacL;
The learned counsel having explained the law of lunew
in criminal cases, concluded his address.
Henry Woolgar, examined by Mr. Robinson, corrcr
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 ,tll°
prisoner.
_. _

The verdict will be given in our third edition.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Aug. S.—There has been a fair businesi/
done in cotton yarns, and prices are a shade higheri;
Prices asked for 20's water twist and refused last week
have have been readily conceded this mornin. Good 4ut:
mule, India quality, has been in request; but, in fa.
the inquiry has seldom been of a more general character,
the qualities comprehended in it embracing descriptile
suitable to most of the export markets as well as s.
home trade. Spinners mostly quote the advance obtaantie
at id. per lb., though sales have been effected at a fit
more and a little less than this improvement. ThE, 149 ta
of the cloth market has not been so satisfactory,
manufacturers having to buy their yarn complain 0 '„
the upward tendency of the prices they have to gi:v,a;
Most kinds of cloth suitable to the home trade, inc111"7,4:
printers and domestics, are steady. In the heav'.,„"
kinds of long-cloths, T-cloths, and domestics, prices o`-t
quoted in some cases rather in favour of producers; Ile,
in the large class of goods taken for India prine3l;o
drooping and very irregular. The
production for,
important market continues to be large, but the Pri-rs
offered in many cases are so unremunerative that mak.°
have withdrawn their goods.
One of the suspensions we alluded to on Saturcig;
that of Mr. Ames Broadbent, smallware inanufacture ;
and shipper to the Brazils, turns out to be sonleeties
more important than was at first supposed, the Habil'
being named at 55,0001.
LEEDS, Aug. B.—The markets in the cloth-halle,os
day have been steady, and an average amount of n!
on
has changed hands. Prices are firm, and the stot3,
band are within a very moderate compass. TIT, that
ther on Sunday, yesterday and to-day has been all f the
could be desired for the harvest, and the ripening °th A
crops is going on rapidly, though it will even lags
continuance of the same kind of weather, be ten
rod,'
or a fortnight before any large quantity of wheat is
vos•
for reaping in this district. One effect of the fine rice
ther has been to check the upward tendency of the Pa ju
of corn in the markets, but the advance 01)03'061
London at the close of last week has almost been reatber
here to-day. 'A continuance of the
present we- fis.
will, doubtless, produce a fall in the price of brew:Le°