The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-16 00:00:00

TBE SUN. LoNDoiv. WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16, 1867

being V3l and the former 272; but this is accounted
for by -.the fact that frequently in cases of supposed
infanticide, when a verdict of murder is given, the
results at the trial is a verdict of concealment of
birth. In such cases the coroner of courso retains
them as' cases of murder, while the police return
them accm -ding to the finding of the jury at the
trial. Th ere is a decrease in the number of in-
quests, while the verdicts of murder show an increase
of 19.8 pe r cent. Verdicts of manslaughter and
suicide each show a considerable decrease. Out of
the G,872 infants under seven years of age upon
whom inquests were held, it is interesting to re-
mark that 5,523 were legitimate, and that only
1,349 were illegitimate. This is a sufficient answer
to those who allege that illegitimate children are
usually the subjects of infanticide ; and, in addition
to this, while infanticide has most undoubtedly
been on the increase, there has been for the last three
years no material variation is the number of
children dying a violent death upon whom inquests
were held.

The costs of coroners' inquests, including salaries
and travelling allowances, show a remarkably steady
continuance at ono average. In the year 1856
the average cost of an inquest was £3 ls. 7d.,
and in 1866 the cost was exactly the same
amount, while the greatest variation in the inter-
mediate years, with the exception of one, was no
more than 3s. 11d.

extensive, the Powell Duffryn, Company alone
having shipped 7,665 tons in the last six days, and
for the past fortnight or three weeks they have
shipped something approaching that average. The
exports during the past month reached 184,514
tons as compared with 151,720 tons in the corres-
ponding period of last year. For house coal pur-
chases on account of the coasting markets will bear
a fair comparison with the corresponding period of
last year, and the cold weather which set in for a
few days has had its influence on the local consump-

tion. Coastwise the shipments last month were
70,899 tons against 59,503 tons in the month of
September, 1866. The iron trade has not materially
altered its position since last report, and the same
degree of quietness which has characterised busi-
ness for so long a period still continues. The ex-
ports of iron for the past month were 12,123 tons,
the greatest portion of which was sent to Russia
and the United States.

LEEDS, 15.—There was only a small attendance
in the cloth halls this morning, neither buyers nor
sellers being present in full force, owing to the
weather being thick, as well as to the generally quiet
tone of trade. At the close of the markets no great
amount of goods was removed from the halls, the
sales having been confined to small selections of
seasonable goods, including witneys, beavers, and
hair lists, and a fair quantity of tweeds. The
heavier makes in lower and medium qualities of the
latter class of goods were most in request, and they
fully maintained late prices. The flax trade is rather
dull, and prices are irregulr r.

ROCHDALE, 14th.—There wPs a rather better at-
tendance in the flannel market to-day than last
week. The market, however, was not brisk, buyers
not being inclined to buy much nor to give out large
orders. Operations extended as much to fancy as to
plain flannels, and for both prices were generally
firm ; but if there was any change it was a slight
reduction.

der, he must be well aware, would probably cost
him his German subjects, and relegate him to the
inferior position of the chief of a mere mass of mis.
cellaneous Sciavonic and Hungarian provinces ;
while any hope of regaining ascendancy, either in
Italy or at home, is obviously futile. But it is on
the sagacity and self-interest of the French Emperor
that we place our principal reliance. Napoleon
knows well that a war with Prussia would be a war
with all Germany ; that it would be a long and
desperate war, with a doubtful issue as to military
glory, and with scarcely a possibility of SUCCer'S in
preventing the ultimate fusion of the German
States, even if it did not assist that hated result.
Ile sees clearly, too, no doubt, that with the Teu-
tonic idea and passion for nat:onal grandeur and
unity so fiercely aroused as it now is, the prospect
of seizing and retaining the cis-Rhenane provinces
of Prussia and making the Rhine his boundary is
all but hopeless.