The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-06 00:00:00

Dated the 4th day of May, 1854.

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest . 3,172,183
" " ' ' •

Government securities
(Includg.Dead W eight

I'ublic deposits tin-
c:uding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 2,018,493
Other deposi s ...... 11,316,805
Seven Day and other
Bills ........ . 1,126,996

Annuity) 13,080.(79
Other securities ...... 14,438,191:
N,.tes .............. 3,941,1410
Gold and silver coin.. 717p4646

£32,187,477

£32,187.07
[. MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier..

Dated the 4th day of May, 1854

ALLEGED ILLEGAL BURIAL OF A CHILD. —The body of
a child, aged six or seven weeks, has been discovered
and exhumed by order of Mr. Wakley, the coroner,
from the place where it had been interred, in the garden
of the house, No. 14, Harrington-square, in the occu-
pation of Dr. Griffith Jones, under the following cir-
cumstances :—On Saturday evening, a young man,
named Thomas Hogg, formerly in the service of Dr.
Griffith Jones, called at the coroner's office, and repre-
sented that about seven or eight weeks back, Dr. Reeves,
who lives with Dr. Griffith Jones, brought home a band-
box wrapped up in brown paper, and gave directions
that no one should touch that parcel. Some time after,
on going into a back room, he saw Dr. Reeves sewing
up the body of a child. Dr. Reeves told him to go
and dig a hole in the right-hand corner of the Bard en ;
and when he had dug the hole, Dr. Reeves came vrith
the body of the child wrapped up in a cloth and thr-ew
it into the hole, and told him (Hogg) to fill it up directly.
On hearing this statement the coroner directed Davis,
the summoning-officer, to go to the house of Dr. Griffith
Jones arid dig up the garden and seek for the body.
Davis, accompanied by a labourer with a spade, waitod
on Dr. Griffith Jones on Sunday, and, having stated his
mission, Dr. Griffith Jones stated that he knew nothing
about the matter, and called Dr. Reeves, who admitted
the fact, and showed him the spot where tho child was
buried. The body was found about two feet below the
surface, much decomposed. Dr. Reeves
stated that be
had attended a lady in her confinement, who se name he
did not know, either No. 6 or 7, Wellington-square,
Chelsea, and that the child was about seven weeks old.
Having died, the lady gave it to him, as be was making
some experiments on the spine. Yesterday Davis made in-
quiries both at 6 and 7, Wellington-square, Chelsea, and
found both houses inhabited by highly respectable families,
who declared that no such circumstance bad ever taken
place. On application to Mr. Lang, the registrar of the
district, he declared that neither birth nor death bad
either been registered from the place mentioned. The
coroner has ordered an inquest, for which purpose the
body has been removed to St. Pancras Workhouse.—
Observer. [A paragraph appeared in the Morming Chro-
nicle of Tuesday last, referring to the above embunaation,
in which we much regret it was stated that. the child
had been under the care of a medical gen tleman, in
whose garden the body had been buried. It will be seen
from the account we have just extracted from the Ob-
server, that Dr. Griffith Jones knew nothing whatever
of the circumstances connected with the death or burial
of the infant.]—Morning Chronicle.—The above has
been in type since Tuesday, but left over from acci-
dent. The original paragraph was copied from the
Morning Chronicle.—ED. Sun.

BIRTHS.
OF A SON.

On the 30th ult., in Torrington-square, the wife of Co-
ventry M. Woodhouse, Esq.
On the 4th inst., at 2, Sussex-street, Warwick-square,
the wife of John Sleigh, Esq.