The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

VENING, AUGUST 24, 1844.

Mocha was nearly all withdrawn ; Havannah privately,
I 87s 6d to 40s per cwt.
TEL—There has been more activity in the market
this week, and importers have shown firmness. The
rates previously established are full sustained for
Congou, and the demand has been good' for all descrip-
tions: 100 to lid paid for large parcels of common
sound, 1 lid to is Oid for good common, is Id to is 6d
for middling and good blackish leaf, and is 6d to 2s 4d
for fine and Pekoe descriptions. Pouchong has met
with increased attention at 5d to 9d, and for superior
sorts 10d to Is per lb have been paid—this is still the
cheapest description of Tea. Souchong, however, is not
much wanted, and the supply exceeds the demand.
Scented Orange Pekoe is greatly wanted, and prices
rule high, owing to the smallness of the supply; sales
made at 3s Id to 3s 5d ; Plain Orange Pekoe at is 7d
to 2s 4d ; Twankey at is 2d to is 3d per lb ; the better
kinds is 4d to Is 8d ; and superior Hyson kind is 9d to
2s sd. Imperial and Gunpowder are in good request.
Hyson common at 2s 4d to 2s 6d per lb. For Caper
there has been a much better demand. In Flowery
Pekoe and young Hyson the operations are upon a more
extended scale, and prices rule firm. To-day the mar-
ket was firm, and a fair business was done in most de-
scriptions, common and good common Congou cash
fetched lld to is Oid per lb.
StueEs.—Holders of Black Pepper have shown firm-
ness this week, and none has been offered at auction.
To-day Cassia Lignea met with more attention at public
sale, but a decline on former rates of Is to 2s per cwt,
good middling I lb bundles went at .58s 6d to 61s,
mid 56s 6d to sss, good ord 503 6d to 51s, half bundles
51s to 545, mouldy 48s 6d to 53s 6d, cockroach
damaged 49s 6d to 54s 6d, sea damaged 445,
broken 47s 6d to 48s 6d per cwt. Of Nutmegs
16 casks were offered, and mostly sold at firm rates,
good mid brown Singapore fetched 3s 6d to Ss 7d, good
3s 8d to 3s 9d, fine 5s 2d, mid 3s 4d to 3s sd, low mid
3s. and worm eaten 6d to is ld ; sound for exportation
only taken in at is 6d to 2s 2d. Mace, good bright Sin-
gapore fetched 5s 7d, good mid 4s 6d to 4s 9d, mid
3s 2d to 3s 6d, ord 2s Bd, and mouldy Is 10d.
Cloves were not much in request, and 41 chests Penang
at public sale sold Id to 2d per lb cheaper, and went at
2s 5d to 2s 7d for fine bold bright Penang, and 2s to
2s 3d for good. Pepper was little inquired for.
SAao has been inquired for, 112 bags at auction were
bought in at 14s per cwt for middling small brown Pearl.
Sago Flour at 18s to 20s per cwt. Holders remain firm
and supply the market sparingly. This afternoon of
Sago 190 chests at auction were all taken in at 24s for
fine small white Pearl, and 21s for fine large Brown
being above the value.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Of Jamaica Rum,
in second hands, extensive parcels have been taken by
the shippers and the home trade, at prices showing an
advance on those previously quoted of Id to 2d per
gallon. The purchases amount to 400 puns at 3s 8d to
4s 6d for 32 to 38 per cent over proof. Leewards at
2s 4id to is 5d per gallon proof. Demerara at 3s 5d to
3s 7d for choice marks 36 to 41 per cent over. Calcutta
Rum at 2s 2kd to 2s 3d per gallon proof, with certificate.
The arrivals of Rum are still small. Brandy—Cognac
best brands, of the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 4d, puns
at 5s 2d ; litto 1839, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1840,
hhds 5s Id, puns 4s lld ; ditto 1841, hhds ss, puns
4s 10d; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d; middling and
good middling 3s 3d to 4s 6d, and low 2s lld to 3s Id
per gallon; of the last mentioned sort the supply has
become scanty. Geneva fine for home consumption is
fetching 2s 6d to 3s 6d per.gallon. English Corn Spirits
remain at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash.
FRUlT.—Grocers have taken several parcels of Cur-
rants, paying 47s to 49s for Patras, and 4ls to 43s for
Zante and Cephalonia. Importers show much firmness.
INDIGO. —An increased desire has been shown to pur-
chase East India this week. All descriptions have been
in excellent request for exportation, and several parcels
sold for home consumption. Picked lots are fetching a
profit of 2d to 4d per lb ; at public sale, however, 100
chests were withdrawn at stiff rates ; Madras at 2a 3d to
2s 4d per lb for low quality. Spanish is wanted, and the
tendency of prices is upwards ; the market is sparingly
supplied.
SALTPETRE.—In the early part of the week the mar-
ket for rough, without any apparent cause, suddenly be-
came dull, and previous rates were with difficulty sus-
tained. To-day some purchases were made privately.
At auction, 850 bags Calcutta were taken in at 6d per
cwt above the value, 5 per cent refraction good dry yel-
lowish white at 26s 6d, the remainder, however, sold at
very full rates, and fetched 24s to 24s 6d for middling
grey, rather damp 13-id per cent refraction.
OILS.—In common descriptions of Fish Oils few pur-
chases have been made this week, and former rates are
with difficulty maintained. Pale Seal at 351 to 35155,
and Cod 331 15s to 341 per tun. Sperm Oil is wanted,
and prices rule high. Linseed is again cheaper, but at
25s per cwt a good business has been transacted ; the
supply is, however, on the increase. Rape Oil at 36s 6d
to 37s for pale, and 35s 6d to 36s per cwt forbrown. Olive
Oil at 451 to 46/ for Gallipoli, 43/ to 441 for Spanish, and
Barbary 40/ per tun. Holders show firmness. Palm
at 26s to 28s per cwt for good and tine quality. Cocoa
Nut Oil at 28s to 30s per cwt. This afternoon at public
sale 140 tuns of Sperm Oil went at 83/ 15s to 851, and
Headmatter 901 to 911155 ; of 130 tuns of Southern a
small part only sold at 29/ lOs to 311 for good and fine,
and 26110 s to 28/ lOs per tun for inferior.
TALLOW.—AU increased desire has been shown to
purchase Russian Tallow; on the spot the demand has
been very good, and an advanced rate paid, P Y Candle
selling at 41s 3d to 42s per ewt for fine quality. For
delivery the operations are upon a more extended scale
at 42s per cwt for the last three months of the
year. Town Tallow has brought stiffer rates and
the market has been nearly cleared at 40s 6d to 41s per
cwt nett cash. For other sorts of Tallow prices are still
improving. This afternoon at public sale New South
Wales Tallow sold at 36s to 42s 3d ; Taganrog 3Ps 6d
to 40s 3d ; South American 35s to 39s 6d ; fine Sheep
Odessa 40s 3d to 40s 6d ; and East India 42s to 42s 9d
per cwt.

COURSE OF EXCHAI
Amsterdam CF. 12 44
Ditto, at sight l2 2
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5
Antwerp 25 65
aamburgh M.B. 13131
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles 25 90
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine l2l

NGE.-(YESTERDAY.
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 394
Palermo, per oz llB4
Lisbon 544
Oporto 544
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
.NewYork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia
PRICEB OF ZULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9
Portugal. Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars 0 4 114

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7

Vienna, effec. L 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37
_ ._

Cadiz
Bilbao 36

Barcelona 36

Seville —

SUMMER ASSIZES.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
INFANTICIDE.—Sarah Hyland, aged 22, spinster, was
placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of her
new-born child.
After the evidence had been heard, Mr. Ballantyne
addressed the jury for the prisoner, when
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and put the case
to the jury as one of concealment of birth.
The jury deliberated for a considerable time, when
they retired to consider their verdict. They were
locked up nearly eight hours, and at length they re-
turned a verdict finding the prisoner Guilty of con-
cealing the birth, and not guilty of murder.
Faith Bowerman, 17, was also indicted for the
murder of her female illegitimate child, by casting it
upon the ground, and thereby giving it divers mortal
wounds and fractures, of which it then and there died.
Mr. Simon conducted the prosecution. Mr. Char-
nock appeared for the prisoner.
In this case it appeared that the prisoner was a
country girl, and in the month of April she came to
London on a visit to her brother, who resides in the
Belvidere-road, Lambeth. Shortly before the Ist of
July the prisoner had complained of being unwell,
and her sister-in-law went out on that day to get
some salts for her. Upon her return the sister saw
some appearances which induced her to suspect that
the prisoner had been delivered of a child, and she
taxed her with it, but the prisoner denied that it was
the case. Shortly afterwards, however, the body of
an infant alive was found in a gateway close to the
house where the prisoner lived, but there was no dis-
tinct evidence that she had been delivered of an infant.
At the time the infant was found it had some marks
of violence upon the head and upon the body,
and the inference was that the child had been thrown
over a wall that adjoined the prisoner's brother's resi-
dence to the place where it was found. When the
prisoner was questioned she denied all knowledge of
the child, but appeared dreadfully weak and agitated.
Mr. Oliver Duke, the surgeon of Lambeth parish,
who examined the child at the workhouse, proved
that the head was very much contused, and the bones
of the skull were fractured. The back was also very
much bruised. The infant, notwithstanding these
injuries, was alive when he first saw it, but it died
about two hours afterwards, and he attributed that
event to the injury that was received upon the head.
In cross-examination the surgeon said that the in-
jury that appeared upon the head might have been
occasioned by falling upon the stairs. He also said
that the loss of blood consequent upon the delivery of
a child would in some cases almost occasion a state of
frenzy in the mind of the mother.
Mr. CHAENOCH addressed the jury, and contended
that the evidence was altogether insufficient to war-
rant the jury in convicting the prisoner of the heinous
offence of which she was accused.
Mr. Justice WIGRTMAN having summed up, the
jury found the prisoner guilty of manslaughter.
Judgment was respited.
Amelia Alfrey, 26, was indicted for feloniously
assaulting Mary Anne French, and casting her into
the water, with intent to drown and murder her.
Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner.
William Alfrey, a little boy, deposed that the pri-
soner was his sister, and he lived with her, by the
water-side, at Wandsworth. On the 29th of July he
was on Wandsworth-common, and saw the prisoner
there, accompanied by her two children, a little girl
and a boy; their names were Henry French and Mary
Anne French. The prisoner lived with a man named
French, and the children went by his name. Shortly
afterwards he heard the prisoner scream, and on going
to her he found her in a pond with her children. It
was very shallow water, and he ran in and held up
the children's heads, and also tried to hold up the pri-
soner's head. A little time before this occurred, he
had seen the prisoner walking about, and she told him
to go home., He did not see the prisoner carry the
children into the water, but he thought they walked in.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 22.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
SMITH V. BOUTCHER.
This was an action to recover the amount of a com-
mission claimed by the plaintiff for obtaining freight for
a ship of the defendant's.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. Crompton were for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Martin and Mr. Edwards for the defendant.
It appeared that the defendant was a ship-owner in
London, and the plaintiff a ship-broker in Liverpool.
Some communication was opened between the plaintiff
and the defendant, and the former procured a freight for
the vessel to Laguayra, with liberty to call at any
island in the West Indies. After the charter-party had
been signed, the defendant entered into a contract with
Government to convey some troops to the Bermudas on
the same voyage. The party on whose behalf the plain-
tiff had made the original contract objected to this, on
the ground that the Bermudas are not in the West
Indies, and required that the charter• party should be
cancelled, which was done. The defendant, however,
objected to pay the plaintiff his commission, the voyage
which he had negotiated having been given up. The
plaintiff alleged that this was no fault of his, nor any
matter to him. He had done his work, and desired to
have his reward. It was shown that the defendant got
about 260 L by the passage of the troops, and that the
freight saved by the vessel was somewhere between 5001.
and 8001. The commission was Si. per cent.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 35l
M'CLEERE V. FRANCE AND ANOTHER.
This was an action for an assault and battery. One
of the defendants, William France, pleaded that he was
not guilty, and that the plaintiff first assaulted him.
The other defendant, Thomas France, pleaded nob
guilty.
Mr. Wortley and Mr. Cowling appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Martin and Mr. Crompton for the
defendants.
It appeared that the plaintiff is a gentleman of for-
tune, living in Wall-street, Wigan, in this county, of
which place he is also a magistrate. The defendant
William France is a shopkeeper, whose premises open
into a yard into which the plaintiff's premises also open,
and there is a common passage to the yard from the
street. In the yard are the stables and coach-house of
the plaintiff, and a warehouse of the defendant, William
France. The other defendant, Thomas France, is his
brother. On the 27th of May last there was an election
for the southern division of the county. Wigan is one
of the polling places. The plaintiff had been dining with
his party, and had returned to bis house about nine
o'clock in the evening, and immediately went into the
yard. where, according to the evidence of a young
woman who was a daughter of the plaintiff's coachman,
the defendant William France came up with a stout
walking-stick in his hand. Something was said between
them, which the witness did not hear, when the de-
fendant William France struck the plaintiff several very
violent blows on the head and face ; so violent that
his hat was cut through and knocked off his head,
and a swelling produced the size of a hen's egg.
Just at that time, Mrs. M'Cleere and a neice
were coming out of the plaintiff's back door
to go to the stable to see a pony of Mr. M'Cleere's
She, seeing her husband assaulted, began to shriek, and
a Mr. Isherwood, the superintendent of a factory, hear-
ing the cry, ran up the yard. He saw the defendant
William France strike the bare head and face of the
plaintiff twice with the stick. His face was covered with
blood. Thomas France, the other defendant, had the
plaintiff by the shoulder and held him, as it appeared to
the witness, not to prevent mischief, but to give his bro-
ther a better opportunity. The witness rushed between
them, and said, "No more sticks," and they all went
down on the ground together, with Mrs. Kirk the plain-
tiff's niece, who had gone to the spot. She and Smith,
the coachman, gave similar testimony.
Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury for the defendants,
and called witnesses to prove that the plaintiff on his way
home from the election dinner had struck with a stick a
little boy of the defendant William France, who acciden-
tally ran between his legs ; that the child ran home cry •
ing to his mother ; that when the defendant came into
the yard she went to him and complained, to which he
replied, " Go to the devil," on which she fetched her
husband. Some of the witnesses also swore that when
the parties met the plaintiff struck the first blow, and
that the only object of Thomas France in interfering
was to separate the parties.
On cross-examination it appeared that most of the
witnesses who deposed to those things were on the other
side of the street, and could only see that part of the
yard which was in a direct line with the passage ; while
most of the plaintiff's witnesses were on the spot. A
servant girl of the defendant, however, stated that she
saw what took place from the steps of her master's back
door, which opened into the yard.
Mr. WORTLEY replied, and the case having been
summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
—Damages 501.
In the Crown Court the Lord Chief Baron was en-
gaged during the whole day in trying cases of rape.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Aug. 22.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHEItLEY.)
HORRIBLE ATROCITY.—Thomas Goatman, aged 17,
was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding a
mare, the property of William Humpidge.
Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, Mr. Francillon
defended the prisoner. .
It appeared that on the 10th of April last, the prisoner,
who was a farm servant of Mr. Humpidge, for some rea-
son or other which did not transpire, was dissatisfied
with one of the horses committed to his charge, a fine
and valuable young mare; he was observed by some by-
standers to go from the stables and to cut a short thick
stick from a " service" tree in a neighbouring hedge.
And shortly afterwards ho was seen punching the animal
about the bind-quarters, with a piece of stick about
twelve or fourteen inches in length. No one witnessed
the brutal and atrocious act which the scoundrel next
committed, but the evidence left no doubt that, after
some further ill-usage, he thrust the piece of wood, which
he previously tapered with a knife at either extremity,
up the hind-quarters of the poor mare, as the meatus
urinarius, the bladder, and intestines were lacerated in
a horrible manner, and the poor animal, in the convul-
sive throes induced by the agony she underwent, actually
caused the weapon in question to work its way forward
through her body until it reached her chest, whence it
was cut, after death, by a labouring man who came up
shortly afterwards. It was suggested, on behalf of the
prisoner, with more ingenuity than probability, that the
mare might have swallowed the stick while browsing in
the field. As both ends were, however, trimmed with a
knife, and as the ground under the tree was strewed with
leaves and chips, and the prisoner had been seen using
his knife there, he was at once convicted by the jury.
The Court passed upon him the comparative lenient
sentence of twelve months' imprisonment.

. The mother was re-called, and she stated that the
letter in question was written by the man French,
and in it he expressed his intention to abandon her.
(The letter was read.) The witness said that after
the prisoner received this letter she observed the
ymptoms in the prisoner's conduct that she referred to.
In cross-examination the mother said that French
had been charged with some offence, and the prisoner
had exerted herself very much to obtain a lenient sen-
tence for him. She appeared very fond of her children.
Mr. CHARNOCK, in his address to the jury, said it
was impossible for an advocate to do so upon a more
distressing case than the present. He then proceeded
to comment upon the facts, and said it was evident
that the cruel manner in which the unhappy prisoner
had been deserted and abandoned by the man for
whom she evidently felt an ardent affection, had
unsettled her mind, and that in a paroxysm of frenzy
she committed the act imputed to her.
Mr. Baron GURNEY, in summing up, remarked
upon the distressing nature of the case, and said there
did not appear to be the slightest ground for believ-
ing that the pristner entertained any malice towards
her children ; but if the jury thought that she went
into the water with the intention of destroying them
and herself, she would, in law, be guilty of the offence
imputed to her. If they thought the facts proved, it
would then he a question whether, at the time the act
was committed, the prisoner was in such a state of
mind as to be accountable for her actions.
The jury, after a very short deliberation, acquitted
the prisoner on the ground of insanity, and she was
ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure.
The first witness, the prisoner's brother, was then
re-called by Mr. Baron GURNEY, who told him that
the courage he had shown, and the manner he acted
at the time, did him great credit, but he regretted to
see, by the depositions, that he had not to-day stated
all he knew.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.
Yesterday the adjourned quarter sessions for the
city and liberties of Westminster was held at the
Court-house, Broad Sanctuary. The Court was
much crowded, in consequence of its being imagined
that this would be the last sessions which would be
held in the Broad Sanctuary, on account of the
junction of the sessions for Westminster and Middle-
sex at Hicks's Hall, Clerkenwell-green, under the
new Prisons Act.
TREASURY PROSECUTIONS.—Two most respectable-
looking men, who carried on extensive business as
tradesmen in the Vauxhall-road, named Thomas
Meadows and Robert Hill, were indicted for violently
assaulting 'William Robert Anstell, a constable of the
B division of the metropolitan police force.
The prosecution, which was instituted at the in-
stance of the Treasury, was conducted by Mr.
Adolphus, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Doane ; and Mr.
Clarkson, with whom was Mr. Wylde, appeared for
the defence. Perhaps there were fewer cases ever tried
in this Court in which the evidence, which extended
from half-past ten until near seven o'clock, was more
contradictory.
Mr. BODKIN, in stating the case for the prosecu-
tion, said this was a case of sufficient moment to call
for the intervention of a Treasury, or special Govern-
ment prosecution, instead of leaving it to the ordinary
and less certain course. On the evening of the 13th
of May last, the two prisoners, accompanied by Mrs.
Meadows, were passing along Vauxhall-bridge-road,
Meadows being, at the time, in a very drunken and
excited state, when they overtook the constable, An-
stell, who was on duty at the time. Some months
previous to this Meadows had a dispute with the con-
stable, since which time he entertained an angry feel-
ing towards Anstell. Hill, who was perfectly sober,
requested the constable to take Meadows, but he re-
plied it was contrary to his duty to do so, all he was
allowed to do with a drunken man was to see him to
the station-house. Meadows, upon this, contrary to
the entreaties and endeavours of his wife, rushed at
Anstell, knocked him down, and, while lying on the
ground, kicked him violently in a vital part of his
person, and otherwise inflicted severe injuries upon
him. After considerable exertion, the constable got
upon his feet, and other policemen arriving, they
tried to take him to the station-house, but such was
his violence, kicking and biting all around him, that
they had to send for an additional reinforcement from
the station-house. They then placed him on a truck,
after strapping all his limbs, and wheeled him to the
lock-up, where he struck several of those around him.
The Learned Counsel then called about twenty-
five witnesses, amongst whom were nine policemen,
in support of his statement. After which,
Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury, and stated that
it was his client, Hill, who had here most right to
complain. The object in mixing him up in the in-
dictment was to prevent Meadows from having the
advantage of his evidence as a witness. He thought
the jury and the country could not sufficiently
strongly mark their reprehension of the system of
dignifying every little common assault into a Go-
vernment prosecution. Besides, they should recollect
the vast expense which it entailed upon the country,
by all the unnecessary and cumbrous machinery of
Treasury solicitors, first-rate counsel, &c. In the
present instance the conduct of the police had been
gross and brutal in the extreme ; they had dragged
the unfortunate man along the gravelled way on his
face, like a dead dog, instead of rendering him that
assistance which his helpless condition, and the en-
treaties of Mrs. Meadows, would suggest to the mind
of any man of ordinary feeling. As for Mr.
Meadows assaulting the policeman in the manner
described by Mr. Bodkin, it was preposterous, for he
was a diminutive man, while the constable stood
about six feet high.
Evidence was then called in support of his state
meat, and in refutation of the witness for the pro
secution.

The merits of both sides may be best guessed
at by the verdict of the jury, which was one of Ac-
quittal in favour of Hill, and of Guilty with respect
to Meadows.

The COURT sentenced the latter to two months' im
prisonment, with hard labour.

The names of no less than twenty persons ap-
peared in the calendar for trial to-day, upon an in-
dictment charging them with having committed a
violent assault upon Henry Maynard on the 26th of
July. The facts of the case, which have been
already before the public, arose out of an attempt
on the part of one of the steam-boat companies
which ply upon the river to pull down the pier
established by a rival company, for the purpose of
landing, their passengers, adjacent to Temple-bar,
and which attempt caused considerable excitement
and alarm in the neighbourhood, in consequence of
the conduct of a gang of long-shore-men who were
engaged in the attempt.
Owing to the pressure of other business, and the
number of witnesses likely to be examined on both
sides, it was deemed advisable to postp one the hearing
until the 12th of September, the last day of sessional
sittings in Westminster Court-house.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKENWELL.
RZPORTERS AT POLICE-COURTS:A change has
been made within the last few days in the interior
arrangements of the Clerkenwell Police-court, pro-
ductive of great inconvenience to the reporters for the
morning newspapers who attend them. The box
which had been designed and constructed for the ac-
commodation of reporters, and which has been ex-
clusively occupied by them since the erection of the
court, is now, by direction of the magistrates, only
used by police officers. A seat at the rear of the box
has been placed for the reporters, and this is the only
part of the court, except the body, which they are
permitted to occupy. At other Police-courts, the
Thames, for instance, reporters are allowed to sit at
the table when they find it more convenient, although
there is a box for their especial accommodation' the
very same as that from which the reporters have been
expelled at Clerkenwell. But no such privilege is
allowed at Clerkenwell—they have been forbidden

' Cross-examined—There were plenty of people about
at the time the prisoner was in the water. The water
was not deeper than just above the knee.
George Steer deposed that on the evening in
question he heard a scream, and went to the pond,
and found the prisoner and her two children in the
water. Witness assisted to get them out, and ascer-
tained that one of the children was tied to the
prisoner's body with a shawl, but he could not state
whether the other was attached to her. The prisoner
was lying upon her hack in the water, and appeared
in an exhausted state, and all she said was, " My
children !my children !" in a low tone. The prisoner
and her children were then taken to the workhouse.
By Mr. CHARNOCK—In witness's opinion the
mother and her two children all screamed together.
The pond was not at this time very deep. The
prisoner appeared very much exhausted, and her
hands had changed colour. Witness had heard that
the prisoner was once confined in a lunatic asylum.
William Lee, a police-constable, said that he found
the prisoner in the state described by the last witness,
and assisted to convey her to the workhouse. He
produced the shawl taken from the prisoner.
By Mr. CUARNOCK—He heard the prisoner say it
was trouble that had made her do it.
Emily Alfrey, the prisoner's mother, deposed that
she was not married to the father of the children in
question, but they had cohabited together for six
years. He had latterly deserted her, and she had in
consequence become very ill, and was confined in a
lunatic asylum for six weeks, and when she was dis-
charged she went to live at witness's house. Before
the Ist of July witness had observed symptoms in the
prisoner's conduct of her head becoming bad again.
John Busain, an inspector of police, proved that he
received the prisoner in charge, and told her that she
was accused of attempting to murder her children and
to commit suicide, and she replied, in a faint tone,
'lt is distress that drove me to do it." The witness
then produced a letter found upon the prisoner when
she was taken to the workhouse.