The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-17 00:00:00

CHILD MURDER.

Last night, pursuant to adjournment, the Coro-
ner's Jury re-assembled at the Coal Hole Tavern,
Fountain-court, Strand, before Thomas Stirling,
Esq., Coroner, to inquire into the cause of the death
of a female infant child, which it was alleged had
been murdered by its mother.

Sarah, wife of R. W. Simmons, a lighterman,
residing in Off-alley, Strand, knew the mother of the
child, Maria Coulson, who was cook at the Coal-
hole Tavern ; about four months ago witness taxed
her with being pregnant, and she denied it, and
abused her for having suspected such a thing; on
Friday last, about two o'clock, witness was informed
that something had happened to Maria, and she
went to the attic, and observing her situation, she
said, " Oh, Cook, what is the matter with you ?"
She replied, " Nothing," and desired witness to
leave the room; after that she said she would tell
the truth—she had had a miscarriage; witness pro-
posed helping her on the bed, but she would
not let her; witness asked her where the
baby was ? She replied that she had no baby ;
witness said, " Nonsense, Cook, you must have
a baby somewhere ;" and she replied, " No, I
have not, Mrs. Simmons, and leave the room ;"
witness then left the room, and informed the pro-
prietor of the house of her suspicions, when he di-
rected Elizabeth, the housemaid, to go with witness
to assist the cook and search for the child ; the
cock was then sitting on the bed, and, from certain
appearances, Elizabeth left the room to fetch a
doctor, and in the interim the cook said to witness,
" For God's sake clean up the room before the
doctor comes !" A surgeon came, arid, after some
conversation, witness again accused her of having
had a child, which she again denied, and gave a
similar denial a third time. Mr. Rhodes sent a mes-
sage to the cook, that if she did not tell where the
infant was, he would send for an officer ; she replied
that she did not care for all the officers in the parish,
and she would not open her box till to-morrow morn-
ing ; on Elizabeth going down stairs, the cook got
from the bed and said, Mrs. Simmons, call her back,
I have a baby ;" and she unlocked her box and
took out a child, which she placed on the
carpet ; she then went to a drawer near the
window, and from thence took a pair of sciz-
zors (produced to witness) and cut something in the
bundle which the child was in ; witness called out,
" Ob, Cook, you have hanged the baby ;" witness
said this in consequence of hearing the scissors snip,
and the cook exclaimed," Hush, you will hang me;
and for God's sake shut the door, keep it as secret
as possible, and don't tell master." Elizabeth heard
this and screamed, and surgeon Jones came up ; he
examined the child, and took a piece of tape (pro-
duced by Mr. Thomas) from under the child's neck,
which was bloody, and appeared to have been tied
round it.

Elizabeth Emmerson confirmed the statement of
he above witness.

After some other evidence, the Jury returned a
verdict of Wilful Murder against Maria Coulton ;
and the Coroner issued his warrant for her committal
to Newgate to take her trial.

DOVER, APRIL 15.

A scene of considerable bustle and excitement
took place here to-day, occasioned by the sailing of a
large schooner, called theSterret,which has been fitted
out in this harbour, it is said, for the service of Don
Pedro. The beautiful proportions of the vessel—the
cause in which it was understood she was soon to
be engaged—combined with the circumstance of her
crew (about 100 in number) consisting entirely of
volunteer seamen from Dover and Folkestone—
seemed to have produced an intense degree of
anxiety in the inhabitants to witness her final depar-
ture from the port. For several hours previous to
high water numbers of well-dressed people were
seen proceeding towards the piers of the outer har-
bour, and at twelve o'clock, the hour of high water,
the assemblage on the piers could not have con-
sisted of less than from 3,000 to 4,000. The Sterret,
decorated with a number of flags, was now seen to
emerge from the crowd of merchant ships by
which she was surrounded in the inner harbour,
and which obstructed the view of her, and
having warped into the outer harbour, exhi-
bited such a specimen of perfect symmetry and
extraordinary size, for a vessel of her class, as
seemed highly to delight the amateurs. The wind
having died away to a dead calm, she was taken in
tow by the Duke of Wellington steam-packet, and
glided beautifully out of the harbour, amidst the
lively acclamations, waving of handkerchiefs, &c., of
the immense concourse of spectators on the piers,
mingled with the enthusiastic cheers of the seamen
and officers, &c. on board ; the whole forming a
highly imposing and animated spectacle. She pro-
ceeded in tow of the steamer in the direction of
Folkestone, and having arrived off that place, a
scene similar to that at Dover again took place. A
number of boats full of seamen, being the remaining
part of her crew (although they all shipped, it
was understood, as passengers), immediately
pushed off, and joined the schooner; and having
taken leave of their townsmen on shore with three
hearty cheers, the schooner immediately proceeded
on her course down channel, towed by the steamer,
which, in case of the weather continuing calm, or
.
the wind becoming unfavourable, it said would
tow her out of the Channel. The Sterret is one of
the largest and finest schooners ever turned out of
Baltimore, where she was built a little more than a
year since. She is upwards of 100 feet in length
on the gun-deck, measures nearly 300 tons, and is
pierced for 16 guns. She had, however, no guns
on board, for although a license was given by the
Customhouse to take her armament on board as
cargo, the parties concerned,
desirous of avoiding
the least appearance of arming in a British port,
preferred going to the expense of forwarding it by a
cutter, which sailed with it for a port in France some
days ago, where it was understood the schooner
would proceed, and after taking it on board, and be-
ing regularly commissioned for the Regency of Ter-
ceira, would proceed on a cruize off Lisbon, in the
hopes of intercepting some of Don Miguel's cor-
vettes, of which, if they were fortunate enough to

PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 l).
Town Tallow .........„.......... 445. Od. Yellow 50ap....................., 624. Od.
Yellow Russia _ .. 43s Od M0tt1ed—.,...._,.....-......, 68s. Od.
White 42s. Od White
................ 745. Od.
Soap Ditto 42s. Od. Graves ................................. 143. Od.
Melted Stuff 3ss. Oa. Good Graves gs. Pd.
Ditto hough 224. Od.

PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b.
Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Me1ter5),.........25. 70.

CUAL MAR}
Per Ton.
Adair's 18s. Od.
17 0
Benshain Main
East Percy,
--. 17
_ . 20 0
Kenton West 18 6
Killingworth
Shipcote
Tantield
Townley. l7 3
Wade's Bensliam 16 0
Willington . 19 6
Wylain IS 9
Walls End ltrown's—... 19 0
Ditto Bewicke and Co. 20 9
Ditto Bell,ltobson,&Co. 18 0
Walls Eno Callerton 17 0
Walls End Carr and Co. 19 0
Walls End G05f0rth........ 21 0
Walls End Heat0n...v..... 21 0
Walls End Hilda 19 0
Walls End Ilcaspur..... 18 6
Ditto Killingworth 19 6
Ships arrived since

ET.-April 16.

Per Ton.
Walls End Jolliflc 17s. 6d.
Walls End Newmarch.... 19 6
Ditto Northumberland 19 0
Ditto Perkins and C 0... 19 0
Walls End Riddell's.... 20 0
Walls End Walker 20 6
Walls End Hetton 22 0
Walls End Lyons --. 19 6
Walls End Lambton..... 21 9
W. E. Russell's Hetton 22 0
Ditto Russell's Lyon's.. 19 6
Walls End Stewart's 22 6
Walls End Adelaide.... 19 3
Walls End Cleveland.. 17 3
Walls End Tees 21 9
Tees Primrose .—...... 1G 6
Cowpen
Hartley 19 0
Merthyr 24 0
Silkstone Field and Co. 18 6
Silkstone Wilson ........ 19 6
Sough Hetton Seam—. 17 0
Tan field Trader—....... 18 0
last market-day, 23.

It appears, by accounts laid before the late
meeting of the subscribers to King's College, that there are de-
falcations in the pledged subscriptions to the amount of
13,0001. ; or, in other words, that there are persons who have
had the meanness to allow themselves to be advertised and
otherwise held up to public notice as promoters of the Institu-
tion to this extent, who, when the day of payment arrives,
pocket the eclat and keep their money. The managers would
surely have as good a right to publish the name of these de.
faulters, as the latter had to have their names published in the
first instance, as pledged to a voluntary engagement which they
have since failed to fulfil.

HORRIBLE CASE.-Michael Douglas, a
pensioner, who resided with his wife in an old stable at the
back of Edinburgh Castle, received two quarters' pension on
Tuesday, and both husband and wife were, shortly after,
as usual, in a beastly state of intoxication. On Wednesday,
the woman was taken very ill, and some neighbours went for
a medical gentleman, but Michael resisted his entrance with
dreadful threatenings, and on Thursday the woman died, hav-
ing been just twenty-four hours ill. Douglas, it appears,
locked the door soon after, and set off with another woman to
Glasgow. Yesterday the door was forced by an order of the
Board of Health, when the horrid spectacle presented itself of
the poor woman's body mutilated in various parts by rats. It
was immediately interred.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—Saturday a
commission of lunatico inquirendo was held at the Gray's
Inn Coffee-house, in the case of E.T. Blewit, Esq. of Llantainara
Abbey, Monmouthshire, aged about 30. It appeared from the
evidence, that in January, 183', Mr. Blewit resided in Great
Ormond. street, at which time he laboured under a state of
great excitement, and was attended by Sir George Tuthill. In
the following March he attempted suicide, by cutting his
throat, and he was shortly after conveyed to Mortlock asylum,
the medical gentlemen who attended him having no doubt of
his labouring under insanity. Stillwell, Esq., Dr. Tat•
tershall, and other witnesses, proved the disordered state of Mr.
Blewit's mind up to the present period, and from their evidence
it would appear that the unfortunate gentleman's insanity ma-
nifested itself in various ways ; sometimes he addressed him-
self in whispers to the images on the mantelpiece ; next he said
he was Earl of Mayo, and the individuals around him were not
good enough to converse with him. On his way to town, hib
notice was attracted by the cows in the Park, to which he
took off his hat and bowed. The Jury returned a verdict—.
" That Mr. Blewit had been of unsound mind since 18::..2."

EDi
IGRATION.--A FFECTING STORY.--We
mentioned a few weeks since that the mania for emigration
rages just now, in this part of the country, to an unheard-of
extent. People of all ages, as well as of all trades, are quitting
their native country for the western hemisphere. Some time
ago two indiiiduals, man and wife, the former aged 80, and the
latter 76, determined, in compliance with the wishes of their
family, all of whom had located themselves in the new world, to
undergo the pains and penalties of a voyage across the Atlantic.
The aged pair, who belonged to a neighbouring county, after.
doing a violence to their own feeling, of which younger, and
consequently more lively emigrants, can know but ccroparativell.
nothing, accordingly took coach for Aberdeen, where a vessel
was awaiting them to carry them for ever from the land of
their birth. They arrived at Aberdeen the same day as the)'
quitted their homes. At the sight of the sea, part of the world
of waters they had to traverse before reaching their children, boll'
of the aged emigrants turned pale; and so great was the impre'
sion it made on the woman's mind, or, in other words, so great WO
her fear of committing herself for so long a voyage to the
mighty deep, that she took ill the day after her arrival In
Aberdeen, and in two days more she died. The vessel was t°
sail the day after the old woman's funeral, and it now bete ?e
a question with the survivor whether he should proceed °,,
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the voyage, or whether he should not remain in his onl.
country and die in the land of his fathers. The struggle
hard between attachment to the place of his nativity, eon*
•joined with an aversion to so formidable a voyage on the oil
hand, and a wish to see his family, to whom he was nli°'
warmly attached, on the other. The latter feeling preelli
derated. The man of fourscore went on board the vessel, Al%
she sailed for the United States. What between grief for I'
wife, regret at leaving his country, and the fatigues of tile
voyage, the old man took seriously ill after the vessel had bee°
three weeks on her passage. In precisely five weeks after the
ship had sailed, the mate of the vessel, who had been in the
shrouds at the time, shouted " Land, land!" The shout Wl°
answered by a deep groan from the old man it was the groan
of expiration —Elgin Courier.

BIRTHS.
On the 15th inst.'at Blackheath, Mrs. Mason, of a daughter.
On the 12th inst. in Devonshire, the lady of Augustus Oran"
ville Stapleton, Esq., of a son.