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SHOCKING MURDER IN SOMERSET.

The county of Somerset his again been the scene of a
murder of singular and atrocious character. In this instance
the victim is a little girl, six years old, named Hannah
Maria Burgess, daughter of a labourer named William
Burgess, working at the Forest Mines, Exmoor, and the
murderer is the child's father. The only motive the
wretched patent had fn- destroying his daughter was to
save the expense cf half a-crown a-wet k which he paid for
her board and lodging.
Burgess was left a widower with five children, four of
them old enough to go into service, and places were pro-
cured for them accordingly. The deceased, the youngest of
the family, was sent to a neighbour to be kept at the
expense of the father, who paid 2s. a week fur some
time, and then the child was removed to the house of
a person named Marley, at an additional cost of sixpence
per week. He had frequently complained of having to pay
this weekly sum for the-support cf I is daughter, and being a
man of intemperate habits the tax appeared to Lei% genres
of great annoyance to him. On Sunday, the 25th of July,
Burgess took the child away from Marley's at four o'clock
in the morning, under the pretence of taking her to some
of his relatives at Porlock, about 14 miles -off. While at
work some days afterwards he was asked what bag become,
of the child, and he said he had taken her to Brinsworitby,
in Devonshire. Nothing further was heard of the child
until last week; and in the meantime Burgess had left his
work and quitted the neighbourhood. In the early part bf
last week a man going along a secluded spot on Exmoor-
Forest found the remnants of some female apparel which
hid evidently been burnt, and the fragments- were'
identified as part of the clothing the child wore when she
left Marley's in company with her father. Suspicion being--
thus excited, a person was sent to Burgess's relations at
Porloek, and it was ascertained that neither Burgess nor
the child had been there on the Sunday above-mentioned.
Some men at work at the iron mines heard that the child
was missing, and in consequence commenced searching the
forest; they found the tarfhad been cut, and a grave bad
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railway car, and locomotive axles; piston rods, guide and
slide bars, crank pins, connecting rods, steam-boat and
mill rods. Amongst the 20 per cent. ad valorem duties
are albata and German silver manufactures, cutlery,
polished, of all sorts; glass, fire-arms, leather, plated and
gilled ware of all kinds, spades, shovels, axes, hoer,rakes,
forks, and edge-tools ; s,,ythes and snaiths, bolts, nuts, and
washers of iron; spikes, nails, tacks, brads and sprigs, &c.
The trade of the district is improving—slowly, it is true,
but unquestionably there have been symptoms of greater
activity in the manufacturing trades generally in the course
of the week. The state of the iron trade very much re-
sembles that of this town ; it is a fact that whilst some of
he mills and forges are not working more than half thee, at
other establishments they have fully six weeks orders on shy
books, and this is not confined to one or two firms. For
charcoal iron of the best quality there is a tolerably good
demane ; and for sheets and plates there is unquestionably
more inquiry. An inferior make of Iron is very little sought
after, and can find sale only at a very low figure; but upon
the whole the trade is looking more healthy than it has done
since the commencement of the quarter; and as consumers
have apparently greater confidence in prices, it is not im-
probable that such improvement as has been experienced
will be maintained. The orders from America by the last
packet were less than was expected, having in view the
fact that the reduction in the price here was known in New
York for some time before the America sailed. The price of
pig iron (best mine) is still quoted at £3 lOs., but there
have been many sales below that quotation ; and the demand
is sufficient to render it improbable that there will be any
additional furnaces in blast at present.
The coal trade has been rather more active during the
last week, chiefly in consequence of parties making arrange-
ments for laying in their winter stock. House coal maintains
its price, but for the commodity used at the works prices
are a shade lower.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)

)een dug about four feet long by two feet wide, and about
three feet in depth, and on throwing out the mould they
observed a strong smell of decomposed animal matter, bat
failed to discover the body. Information was then sent to _
Superintendent Jeffs, of the Wiveliscombe division of the
county constabulary, who at once went in search of the
father.

MANCHESTER, Friday.—The extensive business which
has of late been effected in bundle yarns, from 40's down-
ward (mule and water), appears to be the occasion of a little
slackening just now in the demand, to which, probably, the
absence of spirit in the cotton market may also, in some
degree, contribute; but spinners are too well situated in
regard to orders to be affected in price by a heaviness in
Liverpool, or by a little backwardness on the part of their
customers, which they clearly see to be only temporary;
a❑d, after all, the sales reach a fair aggregate amount, made
up of parcels, not individually large, but numerous. There
is therefore no sign of diminished strength resulting from
somewhat less of activity in this department. Cop
twist and pincops are quite firm under a steady
demand ; the former fully as hard in price in num-
bers 36 to 40. Throstle warps, from 24's downwards,
are in sufficient request to acquire a bias in favour
of sellers. The spinners of GO's to 80's are doing more, and
seem nsw to have secured an addition of Id. per lb. to the
late lowest prices. In finer spinnings the slight symptoms
I of coming business which we have latterly noticed are
becoming rather more apparent. In our last report we
stated that there was a little doing in 100's to 120's twofolds

(the compositor made us to say "a little less doing"); and
we may now repeat the statement. Of the lower numbers
of doubled we have to report not less favourably than we
(lid on Tuesday. There has arisen to-day an increased de-
mand for Indian goods; and some considerable purchases
of 40-inch shirtings, jacconets, and of other articles have
taken place, giving, of course, a further upward bent to
prices. No doubt this is mainly attributable to the gratify-
ing contents of the letters from Bombay, which advise of
very extensive sales to arrive, and at higher prices than
before. In several kinds of printing cloths, shirtings, do-
mestics, T cloths, and long cloths, a steady business con-
tinues to be done. The makers of some descriptions speak
of a certain degree of quietness; and all complain (with too
much reason) of the inadequacy of the prices they are able
to obtain ; but the general tendency, at any rate, is in the
right direction.