The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-31 00:00:00

WHITECHAPEL.

The demand for all .kinds of meat centimes heavy, at
barely stationary prices.
Beef, 2s Odors 4 Od ; mutton, 2s 8
38 8d to 4s 2d; k, 3s 10d to 5s 4d perd to 4s 2d ; veal,
Ms.

BOROUGH HOP.
Good and fine hops move off steadily—other kinds
slowly, at late rates. The duty is called £lO,OOO to
ifi45,000.
t Both beans and and peas were is higher than last week,
owing to the limited supplies on offer.
A fair average business was doing in flour, at full prices.

DEATH OF A CHILD FROM NEGLECT.—Last
s,
evening an inquest was held at the Jacob's Well, kept by al
Mr. Betts, in Milton-street, City, on the body of a child el
named Dempsey, aged six months, whose death was alleged :1,
to have been caused by neglect. It appeared that the
parents of the child (residing in Phillips-court, Milton-
street) led a most unhappy life, and that the mother had el
left her home in consequence of ill treatment by her hue-
band. In leaving her home the mother left her child, and
the consequence was that the child received no milk. The
evidence went to show that the mother had been subjected
to gross ill usage by her husband, and that she had been
prevented from giving that sustenance so necessary to the
nourishment of a child. The medical evidence was to the •
effect that teething might have
p
have cinansu, saidedthed it was t
death of the
becalai
child.
The learned Coroner, in a
de-
plored that dissensions between man and wife should exist.
It was clear that if the woman had appealed to the police,
or even her neighbours, she might have had the child to I
nurture, but she had not taken these stops, and her conduct
had been culpable in the highest degree. The foreman of
the jury, in giving the verdict—to the effect that the child
died from convulsions, brought on by the causes assigned
by the medical gentleman—conceived that the mother de-
served severe censure, and that the father had acted most
cruelly. The Coroner remarked that it was lucky the jury
had returned snoh a verdict. He had to remark that the
fact of a man, his wife, and mother-in-law sleeping in the
same room was gross immorality, inevitably leading to
crime. The mother then retired.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about 2 per mille premium, and ,the short exchange on
London is 25.15 per sterling. On comparing rates
with the English mint price of L 3 17!4. 1011 per ounce for
standard gold, it appears thant gold is nearly 3-10ths per
cent. dearer in Paris than
i London. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 425 ver mark'
Standard and the short
exchange on London is 13.4 per sterling. gold
at the English mint price is, therefore, about 4-10ths per
cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. Tthe. course of
exchange at New York on London for bills a six y days'
sight is loBi. per cent., which, when compared with the
mint par between the two countries, shows
.that the ex-
change is against Englam: ; but, after ipakin9. allowance
for charges of transport and difference of interepst, thesent rate leaves no profit on the transmission of goldbe-
tween the two countries.
MAILS FOR SMYRNA, CONSTANTINOPLE, TREBI.
• EONDE, BT FRENCH MEDITERRANEAN PACKETS.—
In consequence of an alteration which has been made in
the arrangements of the French Mediterranean packet
service, mails for Smyrna, the Dardanelles, Constantinople,
and Trebizonde, intended to be forwarded by the French
packets from Marseilles, will be made up in London, in
future, on the evening of every Thursday only. The mails
which have hitherto been despatched from London on every
alternate Friday evening will no longer be sent.—By com-
mand of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Secre-
tarY.—Qcneral rost-office, Oct, 2.5, -