The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-20 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

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G. Stratton, Mitre Tavern, Mitre-court, Fleet-street, Sept
13, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—E Mayo, Craven
buildings, Drury-lane, woollen-draper, Sept. 9, at eleven, at the
Court of Commissioners—W. K. W. King, Hosier-lane, tin_
plate-worker, Sept. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners
—W. G. Wilmot, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, builder, Sept.
9, at one, attire Court of Commissioners—T. Itedhorts, Crooked_
lane, insurance-broker, Sept. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Com.
inissioners,

CERTIFICATES, SEPT. 9.
.1. Weston, sen. and J. Weston, jun., Old Bond-street, tailors
--W. Gibbs, Savage-gardens, wine.merchant —W. Wales, York,
flax-dresser—T. Perkins, Lower Sapey, Worcestershire, malt.
ter—J. W. Lyon, Dalby-terrace, City-road, brewer,—11. Barker,
New Broad-street-court, wine-merchant—J. N. Waylett, Lon,:
bard-street, shoe.maker— W. P. Litt, J. J. Harrison, and W.
Harrison, Lime-street, merchants.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
M. Roberds and E. A. Gedge, Norwich, milliners—M. Cope_
stake and H. Thorpe, Nottingham, lace-anufacturers--,R. and
I'. Armstrong, Gray's Inn-lane, oil and colourmen—R. Kay and
1. Nuttall,
Heap Bridge, Lancashire, paper-makers—J. Brabrook
and W. J. Hipps, Bury-street, St. James's, lodging-house-
keepers-14. Edwards, jun. and C. Edwards, Framlingham, Suf.
folk, grocers—J. Bourne and 1.. Holmes, Ratcliffe-highway,
grocers—E. and 11. Bescoby, Fore-street, tallow-chandlers—T.
Bevan and J. Perrins, Cheltenham, chemists—J. and S. Tomalin,
Kingston-upon-Hull, ironmongers—l'. P. H. and W. Roberts,
Strand, chcesemongers—C. Mountain and G. Thornton, King.

COAL MAR
Benshara Main...,.,,,.... 235.
Bishop's Main 2'3 0
Dean's Prinirose---,—, 25 6
Felling t 3
Hebbnrn Main -- 28 0
26 0
Killingworth 27 3
Newburn 2B 0
Ord's Redhugh
Porno') Windsor— 25 9
Shipeote 24 6
South 24 6
fantield
Townley 25 3
West Hartley
Wylam.
Walls En.l Callerton 23 9
Ditto Bewieke and Co. 29 3
Ditto liurraton 27 0
Walls End Carr and Co. 26 3
Walls End Gosforth
ships at market, 88%-811

.K ET.--Aug 19.
Walls End Heaton...—. 30s. 3d.
Walls End Hilda 27 6
Walls End Newmareh— 27 9
Ditto Northumberland 26 9
Ditto Perkins and C 0... 27 0
Walls End Riddell's—.. 28 9
Lambton Primrose 29 6
Walls End Hetton 31 9
Walls End Lambton— 31 9
Walls End Stewart's 32:0
Walls End Stobart's..... 23 0
W. E. Cleveland Hetton 25 0
%Valls End Tees...-- t'!il 6
Norwood's Hetton— 27 0
Cowpen 26 0
Culm . 26 0
I fartley ---.27 0
Itavenseroft-- 26 0
Silkstone Field and Co. tN 3
Walls End Selby.--, 22 0

ips sold, 45%—Unsold, 43.

CoUNTRY CORN. MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter.
Ashburn 72 82 44 47 26 34 40 48
Basingstoke 60 76 30 40 24 32 40 44
Bath 4B 70 3'o 40 28 32 40 58
Bridgewater
Bristol 56 61 38 40 22 28 38 42
Chesterfield 64 70 26 32 46 52
Derby 68 72 29 32 43 45
Devizes - 66 70 29 32 24 32 39 43
Doncaster -
Dorchester 56 70 31 3'7 24 27 40 47
62 '7O 37 42
Gloucester 40 64 28 40 22 30 40 41
H ngerford 52 71 24 32 38 46
Leicester. 75 44 29 48
Newbury 46 '77 30 36 24 35 41 46
liomsey 60 66 34 38 26 31 59
Shaftesbury 64 32 28 49
Shepton Mallet ..., 60 66 34 40 28 32 41) 44
Sherborne. 6O 66 30 40 22 28 38 46
58 •72 35 20 38
Yeovil
Per BusheL s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. s. d. s. d. s.d
Shrewsbury 86 96 66 79 56 68t 0 0 00

An oak tree was last week felled near Ludlow,
in Shropshire, the produce of which were 39 tons of
timber, 55 cords of wood; 200 park pales, and five cords
of brackets. A bough broke off before the tree was cut
down, which weighed seven tons and a half. Three men
were employed a month in sticking it. The whole tree
was valued at 165/.

Yesterday evening an inquest was held at Cripple-
' date :work-house, Moor-lane, before Mr. PAYNE, the
ciry coroner, on view of the body of Eliz shed
Cooper, aged 75, an inmate of the above house
whose death took place under the following extra-
- wdinary circumstances.
Elizabeth Collins, a pauper, ►iving in the same
ward with the deceased, deposed, that for the
last few days the deceased had been afflicted with a
bowel complaint. On Monday evening s',e retiretl
to bed about nine o'clock, the customary time, whet,
About three hours afterwards, witness, who slept in
in adjoining bed, was awoke by the deceased, who
cried out to the nurse of the ward, " Sarah Hunt,
for God's sake come to my assistance, I am ver3
sick and dying." The nurse told her to puke away,
and paid no attention to her cries. At length, after
an hour had elapsed, witness got up and procured
a light, and prevailed upon the nurse to come to
the assistance of the deceased. As soon as the de-
ceased saw the nurse, she exclaimed—" Oh, you
wretch, I told you you should never tie my jaws up,
but I was mistaken ; I have had something out of a
cup which will be my death." The nurse said she
should tie up her jaws, and shortly afterwards the de-
ceased became insensible. No doctor was called in ;
anti the nurse, after remaining with the deceased about
half an hour, again retired to her bed. About eight
o'clock on the following morning, Mrs. Cross, the
mistress of the workhouse, paid a visit to the de-
ceased, who remained in much the same state, but
still no medical man was called in. She continued
in this state of stupor until four o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon, when Mrs. Hunt, the nurse, came up to
the bed on which the deceased was lying,' and while
she continued breathing pinched her nose in the
mo,t violent mariner. She then deliberately took
a piece of rag and tied up her jaws, then tying her
legs together, she left her for a short time, when
finding she was not dead, she took up the sheet and
thrust it violently against her face with her hand,
and when witness remonstrated with her against
such cruelty, she told her to go to the devil, and
not meddle with her affairs. The nurse of the sick
ward came to visit the deceased, and finding that the
wretched woman was still living, untied her jaws
and legs ; some wine was then procured from Mrs.
Cross, and administered to the deceased, who lived
about half an hour afterwards, and then expired,
without having been seen by a medical man.
A Juror—Was there any ill will subsisting be-
tween the nurse, Hunt, and the deceased. Witness
—They had been upon bad terms for three weeks
past, and on Sunday last they had a violent quarrel,
when the nurse told her she should have the plea-
sure of tying her jaw up.
Juror—Does this person keep you in such sub-
jection, you were afraid to speak when von saw such
cruelty used towards a fellow-creature ? Witness—
She does, Sir.
Juror—Was she drunk or sober when she com-
mitted these acts of barbarity ? Witness—She was
quite intoxicated; it is a rare thing to see her sober.
Augustus Coppendale, another pauper, who was
an eye-witness, gave a similar testimony, and added,
that the nurse, Hunt, actually knocked the dying
woman's head about from one side of the bed to the
other, and tore off her cap whilst she was struggling
in the agonies of death.

Several other paupers corroborated the foregoing
evidence, and mention: d other acts of cruelty prac-
tised by Hunt on the deceased.
Mrs. Ann Cross, matron of the workhouse, visited
the deceased on Tuesday morning, having been in-
formed she was ill. She found her in a dying state,
and thought it would be useless to call in •medical
aid Witness ordered the nurse for her treatment
to the deceased to be expelled from the ward.
'['he CORONER and the Jury said it would be ne-
cessary to have the body opened. Two surgeons
made a post 7nortenz examination. They stated that
the parts were perfectly healthy, and they could not
account for her death. They could not say whether
medical aid would have saved her had it been called
in on Monday night.
The Jury, after a long deliberation, returned a
verdict " That the deceased died by the visitation
of God," and requested the Coroner to censure the
conduct of Mrs. Cross in not calling in medical aid,
and also to reprimand the nurse Hunt for her cruelty
towards the deceased.
The CORONER told Mrs. Cross to be more atten-
tive in future; he animadverted at length on the
conduct of the nurse Hunt, and told her that she
ought to have been sent for her cruelty to the Old
Bailey. The observations of the Coroner were
totally lost upon her, for she manifested the utmost
callousness.

The inquiry did not terminate until a late hour.

THE MURDER NEAR BRIGHTON.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)

had exerted themselves to the utmost
to
the remaining parts of the female, but
The high constable and his officers, up to Tues-
day
discover evening,
without SUCCCSF. As a last resource, Mr. Folkard
employed some men to empty the privy connected
I,e-ith four or five houses in -Margaret-street, in one of
which the prisoner, at the time he borrowed the bar-
row, resided. The men had got near the bottom,
when they found that some substance impeded
their progress, which proved to be a leg with a
stocking on ; and the next thing they discovered
was a piece of bed-ticking, which they took up, and,
horrible to relate, found that it contained the head.
The other remains of the poor creature were after-
wards taken up. A mark was visible in the fore-
head. The stockings were on the legs, and the
arms were clothed; the head was bare, and most
of the hair off.

Messrs. Hargreaves, Richardson, Lawrence, and
other surgeons opened the head and examined the
skull, on which no fracture whatever was discernable.
The windpipe was divided in two places, but
whether done before or after death it was impossible
to tell, from the decomposed state of the remains.
The part of the vertebrae was found to correspond
with that of the trunk. In the cartilages of the
knees marks were discovered as if made by a knife.
Mr. Hargreaves pronounced it as his opinion that no
other person except a butcher or doctor could have
amputated the limbs in so skilful a manner. (WTe
heard yesterday that Holloway was for a considerable
time a butcher's boy.) The brains were in a fluid
state. The legs and arms were also examined, but
no marks of violence were discovered. It is the
opinion of the medical men that the deceased must
either have had her throat cur, or died by strangula-
tion; but in consequence of the head being severed
from the body, and from the decomposed state of
the remains, it will,
we are assured, be impossible
to tell in what way she came by her death, unless
a confession is made.
The operation lasted upwards of two hours.
After which the surgeons went up stairs in the
Magistrates' room, where the latter had for the first
time assembled, for the purpose of giving their opi-
nion as to whether those parts corresponded with
the remains already interred. The substance of
their evidence was to the above effect. Other cir-
cumstances occurred which tended to prove that the
head, legs, &c. were connected with the trunk, &c.
found in the copse ; the gown pattern, with which
the arms and trunk were covered, were alike. The
face was also recognised by the sister of the de-
ceased, who was deeply affected. Other personscould recognise:the "-lturea. At t e suggestion of

I was at last Knutsford races on the Thursday even-
ing, and left to return to Manchester in company
with another woman and a man named Walker. We
stopped at the Nag's Head, at Bollington, and had
two pints of ale. There were several persons in
the same room with us, and amongst them the two
prisoners at the bar. They spoke to me, and used
very indecent language. When we went out they
followed us, and we returned again to the Nag's
Head to get rid of them. We remained there about
a quarter of an hour, and again set out towards
Manchester. We saw a number of men, among
whom were both the prisoners, sitting by the road-
side. They used indecent language. I told them
to get away, as I was not a person of that descrip-
tion ; one of the men came towards me. I took hold
of Walker for protection; the man knocked Walker
down. The other woman ran away. [The witness
with great difficulty here described the completion of
the capital offence on the road by two of the men,
after which they dragged her into an adjoining
corn-field, where several of these miscreants (among
whom were the two prisoners at the bar) succes-
sively perpetrated the same crime !) When the men
left me, I got up as well as I could, and crawled
out of the field into the lane. I never saw Walker
or the other woman after I was knocked down the
first time. I got into a new building in the lane,
and lay down there on some straw until morning.
In the morning I went to Altringhatn, and on the
road I met one of the men who had abused me. I
also met George Walker, who took me to a con-
stable, and I told him all that bad happened. I was
taken to a lodging-house, and Mr. Wormshead, who
lives in Altringham, and is a friend of my mother's,
came to see rue, but I did not tell him about what
happened in the corn-field.

The witness underwent a long cross-examination
by Mr. COTTINGIiAII, with a view to impeach her
credibility, but nothing very material was elicited.
It appeared that her husband is a sea-faring man,
who has not been at home for nearly three years—
that she usually gets her living by stay-making, and
is in the habit of visiting the races at Manchester,
Liverpool, &c. &c. and associates with people who
go about to fairs and races, with swings, &c. In
the opinion of many persons present, a good deal of
her feebleness and apparent delicacy was put on for
the occasion.

George Walker and Sally Stokes, the persons al-
luded to by the last witness, corroborated her tes-
timony as far as they severally were concerned :
both identified the prisoners.
After some other witnesses were examined, the
Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Hampson, 27, and Martha Moores, 51,
were indicted, the former for inciting Thomas
Goulden, of Stockport, surgeon, to the murder of a
new-born male child, on the 16th of Mai• last, and
the latter for aiding and abetting Goulden therein.
Goulden was tried on a similar charge at the last
Spring Assizes, and narrowly escaped a conviction.
The Coroner's Ju►y in this case returned a verdict
of" wilful murder" against him, hut he has absconded.
The trial contained nothing very important.
Mr. Justice BosANQIJET summed up the evidence
in detail, telling the Jury that a material question in
the case was, whether or not the woman was quick
with child, and so proved to be; if so, the offence
would be capital ; but if not, the punishment (sup-
posing the case in other respects fully proved) would
be transportation for 14 years. His Lordship then
directed the attention of the Jury to the fact, that
the witness Fades, having consented to the per-
formance of this operation upon her, became an ac-
complice, and that, therefore, it was nece—ary she
should be confirmed in all or some of the material
parts of her testimony.
The Jury, after a short consultation, begged per-
mission to retire, and after an absence of ten minutes,
returned into Court with a verdict of Guilty against
both the prisoners, but not knowing the woman to
be quick with child.

Mr. COTTISGIIAM submitted, that this was in ef-
fect a verdict of " Not Guilty."
Considerable discussion took place as to the effect
of the verdict.

The Judge—Gentlemen of the Jury, let me un-
derstand exactly what is your verdict. Is it that
you find the prisoners guilty, but that the woman
has not been proved to be quick with child, because
as I told you, that is what makes the distinction in
the degree of the offence. Is that your verdict ?
Foreman—Yes, my Lord.
Subsequently, when the Learned Judge was pro-
ceeding to pass sentence,
Mr. COTTINGIUM (on behalf of both the pri-
soners) protested against sentence being passed on
the prisoners, in pursuance of the verdict as it was
given. _ _

- Mr. Justice BOSANQUET said, that his own opinion
was against the objection, but that he would take a
note of it. His Lordship then, after a suitable ad-
monition, sentenced each of the prisoners to the full
penalty of the offence of which they had been con-
victed—.ransportation for 11 years.

We regret to learn that there are serious divi-
sions in the Cabinet on the subject of some of the recent
alterations in the Reform Bill. A country paper (the
Brighton Gezette), which has always been supposed to be
under the influence of the Duke of RICHMOND, speaks in
very unmeasured terms of condemnation of the extension
of the suffrage to weekly tenants of houses in towns. We
trust Ministers will bear in mind, on an occasion like this,
their paramount duty to their country, and what the con-
sequences might be of allowing disagreement among them-
selves to deprive the people of a measure from which so
much is reasonably expected.--Morning Chronicle.

• The following story gives a lively idea of tile
Russian rule of Poland :—A Jew met a Cossack in the
forest; the latter robbed him of his horse. On returning
Io the town he lodged a complaint with the Major in com-
mand, who was (with what truth we shall see) reputed to
be a most rigorous disciplinarian. The Cossacks were
paraded, the robber was pointed out, when with the
utmost effrontery he declared that he had found the horse.
How?" replied the Jew, " I was on his back." " Yes,"
returned the Cossack, " 1 found you too; but having no
use for a Jew, I did nut keep yea." The excuse was
deemed sufficient, and the Jew lost his steed.