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OdiniARATIVE RECAPITULATION.
July 11,1857. July 10,1858. July 3, 1858.
Capita 1...
Low, • • 116,028,618 118,863,937 119.812,407
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Circulation .
Gross deposits 94,624,473 106,4 Z 9,723 106,803,210
Exchanged
ndrawn 65,102;597 88,260,956 • 89,535,283
In Sub- freasury 10,861,032 5,342,247
.5, 819,988

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several occiaiont;', he said, 41 .
`Mrs. Swinfen." becathe
days before his deA.t if. I observed 'cliallej4
amentAlfzieulties till within three da-,n'prhzs deaf
His mind wag in a sound state till theft. 7
the room the day a his death. Ladk
there. The morning of hia-d9ath his eycs;Polkortd.
Mrs. Taylor, and Lady: Of oh 'Baia, •", knowa
bernow. ' was much attached. to' I sat with,
him day by day. It vras my habit to read to him-
from magazines, qui Niew Monthly, dEc. He.u3eC
to mdce observatious nu what, I read. .111TE:o
lately read prayers to him on a Sunday. I idnion•
crated with him for not going to church. ge Lad:,
he had no _carriage. When he had a carriagtAiesaid
he was too infirm.. _He said -his.wire:nr.ver _went,
but they always read prayers at how,: I rernetn—,
ber Mrs. Charles Swinfen, drawing the sketch.
was very Has him. When Mr. Charles &dam ar- ,
rived I offered him the keys:and money and every-
thing, and consulted him as to. What ought to be ,
done.
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At this stage of the proceedings; it beiw.nearly
6 o'clo;,sk,
.31r. Justice Byles adjourned the Court till`] m- ,
thy at 9 o'clock, when the plaintiffs "•_examitic.ion
will be resumed.

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XORFOLIi CIRCUIT.
NORWICH, Friday, July 23.
CROWN COVET.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
Emily Money, aged 19, was indicted for the
wilful murder of her male infant child, at Groat
Hautbois, on the 17th of Junelast. _
Mr. ulwer conducted the case for the, prose-
cution. The prisoner was not representecl by
counsel.

The facts of this case are, parhaps, without a
parallel in the annals of crime. It appeared.that
the prisoner was married in November last to a re-;
spectable labourer who had worked fer. Mr. Hearne,
a farmer at Great Hautbois, . for- three or four
veers, and all who knew her spoke • to her being
hitherto a harmless person. On the'llth of June
el le and her husband and other men, and a bby
named Raiment, were at work ,ie a toreip,field.
A. Lttle before die eier
.time she-bayeaw tlea_prisentr
quit her work, aed go ttirinip agate into-a barley
whence she return° l in about a quarter of au
-hour to the gete. She then' went l;ack • into the
barley fiat, and in a few minutes resumed her work
in the turnip field. Soon after this the boy's work
took him to the hedge separating the two fields
above-m,ntioned. and as he stopped , to-turn his
horses he heard the fainteeries of a child issuing
frem the barley: He jumped over the hedge,.arid
bunting about discovered the naked body of a
newly horn male babe, lying with its head. covert d
up to the eyes with Lose earth, which had evidently
beet scraped up from a spot close by, where were
marks 'of blood. The boy at once took up the poor
Aid I, and plucking a I Andful of barley made for it
a rude bed, on which he gently laid it, -and then
repaired to the field, where he told one of the men,
named Daniels, of his discovery. This wan must
also have observed the conduct of the pri-
soner, for though he did nut go to see the
sight, he told the prisoner's husbend to send
his wife to take her child home and attend
to it. No direction, however, seems to have been
given by the husband to his wife, and it being now
dinner time they and all the party departed to their
respective homes, bent on satisfying their hunger
rather than their curioQity. The boy, however,
as soon as he had put up his horses told his master
of what had occurred, and. then they went to the
barley field. At that time the child was not to be
found, and Mr. Hearse repaired to the house of
Motley, where he saw him and tha prisoner, who
at first denied all knowledge of the matter, but
upon being adjured by her husband to tell the
truth, she said, "I have been confined, that's all
right. I have put that on one side. You will find
it buried in your wheat field." Mr. Hearne and a
woman then repaired to the spot indicated by the
prisoner, and there they found the dead body Of a
male child, buried four inches under ground iu a
hole scraped in the brow of the ditch and covered
with tufts of grass torn from t'ie bank. The body
was taken to a neighbouring pubic-house, where
it was washed and examined by Mr. Evans, an ex-
perienced surgeon, who ascertained, and to-day
proved, that there was a severe bruise over the left
ear, which had broken the skin, beneath which was
a considerable effusion of blood, accompanied by 'a
fracture of the b ,nes on both sides of the skull
above the e.tr. These injuries were such as to
taupe alines: immediate death, while there was no
indication of death from suffocation, though the
neck was slightly bruited as well as other parts of
the head and chest, which might be attributed to
careless handling. Under these circumstances Mr.
Evans was of opinion that the more serious injuries
above detailed could not have been sustained at
the birth, first, because it had evidently been a very
easy one ; arid, secondly, because the child had
vi-featly survived its bir.k some time, though it
had respired only through one Inng.
The prisomr, when called on for her defence,
said nothing.
His Lordship, at the close of the case, summed
up the evidence to the jury, leaving it to
them to say whether they thought, in the
first place, the prisoner was the mother of the
child which had been found dead ; and, if so, whe-
ther they thought that the prisoner had inflicted
the injuries spoken to by the surgeon during the
life of her child, and with the design to murder it.
The jury retired to consider their verdict at one
o'clock, and at four o'clock returned a verdict of
not guilty.

His lordship th©n took their opinion on the
question of concealment, and the jury having re-
turned a verdict of guilty, the prisoner was sen-
tenced to one year's imprisonment.

GREAT GALE OF H IND 411• D DESTRUCTION

OF PROPERTY.

During the greater part of yesterday and the
whole of the previous night a tremendous gale of
wind prevailed in the metropolis and its suburbs,
which caused considerable destruction of property
in various localities, and more particularly on the
south side of the Thames. During Saturday night
the wind was most violent, and it was at that time
that the majority of the accidents occurred,
although there were many in the course of yester-
day morning. At the Royal Surrey Gardens' the
wind swept through the grounds making sad haioc
amongst the plants and shrubs, and finall.T caught
hold of the great Indian tent used for the exhibi-
tions of their religious rites and customs by a troupe
of Indians. The tent was one of groat strength,
and fil mly secured to the ground; in the usual way,
but the wind bore all before it, and in a f, w mo-
ments tie cauvas W,is in all directions, and
the tent was dashed to the ground a perfect wreck.
AbDut two o'clock in the morning the wind blew
down the recently established fire-escape at the
corner of Aiqhur-street, Camberwell-gate, with a
fearful era-h, smashing the upper portion of it.
theuty
assistance
a very nar-
assistance of the
rTevrhe
epsoclti
pc ee-,f he constable
or ashere
rushedont
od
clnductor, it fell within a few feet of him. In the
Wal worth-road a large number of the tradesmen's
blinds were rent into ribbons ; the houses at which
the most damage was done being those of Mr.
Cartwright, clothier, and Mr. Lyle, draper.
A police constable on duty in that road states that
at one period of the night hehad to cling to iron rail-
ings in front of a house to retain his footing. The
roofs of nearly every hour() in this road suffered
more or loss, and in some instances stacks of chim-
neys were blown down, as was also a portion of the
ruins at the late extensive fire opposite Cross street'
The gale made itself felt will great severity in the
neighbourhood of Sydenham, Peckham, Dulwich,
and Camberwell. At Sydenham and the neigh-
bourhood trees were uprooted, and an immense
number of valuable p'ants in the pleasuragrounds
of the various mansions were destroyed. In Cam-
berwell many more serious accidents took place.
At the extensive premises of Mr. Jones, postmaster
and omnibus proprietor, of Denmark-hill, a noble
tree, measuring nearly 12 feet round the base of
the trunk, was split completely iu two, and in
falling smashed in a row of outhouses, partially
destroying a brick wall, and was finally hurled at
the b•-•ck of a building which was formerly used as
Camberwell County Couit.
Yesterday morning, as Police-constable 43 P was
on du y in Grove lane, and while walking in the
middle of the road, he fancied he heard above the
roar of the wind a kind of cracking noise, and on
looking up in the direction from which the sound
proceeded he observed a tree of great eizs gradually
falling towards the roadway. The tree reached
completely across the road, and in its descent,
smashed to atom the whole of the fencing in front
of the house No. 7, Cumberland-row,
besides
forcing in the front door of the son • use.
'belong.
r of of a ,ow ..t sheds in Grove-lane,E-gh-street,
ing to Mr. Deacon, butcher,
Cituherw, 1, was -tripped
doming grounds.
the wind, and carried in•o thaevaen
ue of trees on
A very tasteful arb,‘,lvir
t'orr &iris., 0, Grove-lane
the premises of Mr.
large number -Of trees
e ciba..entnitghni:cfcrlrovinenbarye:e.lf.ditn:eewenlcifetl°hi:ocifetleatdrhogefal
appearance, the whole of the
mwaos.teenxttirraeolyrrdaidtaheaswrtyaysr
road and
00l l ewood,cted by a number
of poor
which were,
persJns living in the neighbourhood for fuel.
however,branches
In the Camberwell New-ro d at one of the large
offr
°i freesti m sues
e tto
time pieces
c
houses facing the entrance to Kennington-park, a
coping stone of nvAlly 2 cwt, was lilted from its