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wrapper. (That ulso was produced, and identified by
tLe witness.)

Cross-examined by Mr. COLLIER—The next day after
coming to the house the prisoner said she was not very
well; she bad a bad cold. She was not sociable, but
kept to herself. She did not appear in good spirits the
day after she came to the house. I have fit quEntly seen
her reading the Bible when she had an opportunity, and
I have seen her at prsyer also in her bed room. She
bad been for an hour,in the housekeeper's room by her-
self reading the Bible. I saw her praying in her own
bed-room for half an hour together. She said Mrs.
Johnson had so disturbed her that she .did not know
what slie was about. That was etyiut half-past twelve
on Wednesday. Mrs. Johnson left about a quarter-past
eleven. After Mrs. Johnson left it was half an hour be-
fore I saw the prisoner again.
Re-examined by Mr. Boma:l—She never said any-
thing to too about what she read in the Bible.
Sarah Powell—l am housemaid at 33, Upper Harley-
street. I was so when the prisoner came as cook on the
26 hof Novemb, r. I recollect on Wedimsday following
a person coming with a child. I also saw her go out,
and about five minutes afterwards I went to the house-
keeper's. room. I tried the door, and found it locked on
tile inside. I said, " Ncvor mind," and I then went

a w sty.
George Glasse—l am butler in the service of Mr.
Huth, and remember the prisoner coming into the ser•
vice 071 Monday, the 26th November. She was hired, I
believe, on the Saturday week previous. I did not know
her wages. She was a stranger to me when she came.
On the 28th November I saw the woman Johnson in
Harley street with a child. About three o'clock that
dry the prisoner told me she wished -to send a box to a
sister of her's in thecourtry, containing some left-off
wearing apparel of no use. to her, to ahem it might be of
use. She said she had intended to send it before she
ceree to her situation, but she had cot had an oppottu-
aity of doing so. She asked me how she could forward
it by the railway station from Ruston square. I said I
could send it by the footman. She asked me if I could
do so that evening. I said it would be incebvenisnt that
evening, but I would sent him 'on the following morning.
She said that would do. The next cenveration look
place in the housekeeper's room. She also risked mo to
write a direction for the box, but I did not do so
at that time. She told me it was a long
direction, and I had better write it down. I took a pen
and ink into the kitchen and wrote something at her
dictation, which I have with me. (Produced.) What I
wrote wa,, " Mr. Theophilus Burton, North Leverton,
near Retford, Nottinghamshire." I at terwards copied
that upon a card, adding the words "carriage paid," she
having said she wished the carriage to be paid. The
prisoner did not dine with the servants that day. I
saw her about in the course of the afterneen and even
ing; she cooked the dinner for the family, which was
served that day at half-past six. On the following
morning. the kitchen maid brought a box into my room,
telling me Mrs. Drake had sent the box to me and that
I knew what to du with it. I afterwards asked the pri-
soner to come into my room to see if the direction was
properly written. The direction was sewed to the wrap-
per by myself. She said the direction was quite right,
and gave me two half-crowns to pay the carriage of the
box. I gave that box and two half-crowns to the foot-
men between nine and ten in the morning. The prisoner
said to me if any money was returned from the change
I was to give him sixpence for his trouble. I asked
her, two or three days after, if she had received any
letter to say the box had arrived at its destination. She
said she had not, nor did she expect one for some days,
as the village whither it had gone was some distance
from a pest town.
William Skelton Bryant—l was the footman in Mr.
Huth's service, in Upper Harley-street. On the morn-
ing of the 29th November I took a box to the .Euston-
srsrteaton, and paid 3
station,i at the requests6d. carriageoftheb it. I tools
my
r it to
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return home I saw the prisoner, who offered to giro me
6d. for my trouble, but I declined taking it, when she
said I should lose nothing by it.
William Hall—l drive a coach fr.m Newark to Ret-
ford. North Leverton is six miles from Retford. The
railroad goes no nearer North Leverton than Newark.
On the 30th Nov. I carried a box from Newark to Ret
ford.—(Looks at a direction handed to him.) This is
the same direction. There was a wrapper round the
box. I left the box at the White Hart Inn, Retford,
about half-past six.
William Drake—l am a shoemaker, living
ivingneirri N
namee is
tting-
haroshire. The prisoner is my sister.
Sarah Drake. That is her maiden name. She was
never married, so far as I know. I have a married sister
living at North Leverton. Her husband's name is
Theophilus Burton. On Friday., 30th November, I went
by my sister's directions, to East Retford, I went to the
White Hart, where I received a box covered with a white
wrapper, and it had a direction upon it.—(Shown a
direction.) I believe that to ha the direction. I carried
the box to my sister's, at North Leverton. The direc-
tion was lost off the box as I carried it home. When I
brought the box to North Leverten, I and my brother-
in-law, Mr. Burton, took the wrapper off. My sister
was not present. The box was locked, and it was broken
open with a piece of iron. When we opened the box
we saw the body of a child in it. I bad seen a letter in
my sister's hand the day I went to fetch the box. I
cannot prove the handwriting of that letter. That letter
was burnt.

Cross-examined—l have always resided at North
Leverton. I cannot say at what age Ley sister, the pri
soner, left her home in the country. She has been ab-
sent from home eight or nine years at a time; but from
her first leaving home she has been absent twelve or
thirteen years.
lie-examined—She was at home in the country from
May, 1848. to February, 1849. Since February, 1849,
I have not seen hoz..
Theophilus Burton, a blacksmith, living at North Lever-
ton, and brother-in-law of the prisoner, proved he saw the
prisoner at his house in February of last year. Remem-
bered a letter coming to his house in November of last
year; also remembered a box coming. The letter and
box came on the same day. Gave the letter to his wife,
who said she had burnt it. The letter said " there is or
would be—(witness did not remember which)—a box at
Retford; receive it as soon as possible." There was no
signature to the letter. He did not know the hand-
writing. (Witness then corroborated the preceding
witness as to the breaking open the box and finding the
dead body of a child in it.) The box, body, and clothes
were afterwards given to the policeman, Smith. Wit-
ness took the box to Smith himself.
Edward Smith—l am one of the Nottingham County
Police. On the morning of Saturday, the Ist Decem-
ber, Theophilus Burton brought a box to me in a wrap-
per. On opening the box I found the body of a male
child. There was no direction on the box. In conse-
quence of some information given by Mr. Drake, I
sought for a direction, and found one on Grimly-hill, a
few miles from East Retford. (Direction produced.) I
found a light silk handkerchief round the neck of the
child. The inside lap of the handkerchief was tight,
the outer lap was not tight. Round the neck on the
loft side, towards the left temple, there were dark masks
visible. I found an apron in the box (produced)
marked "S. Drake, 18." I also found some clothes is
the box (produced). I afterwards showed the body of
the child, and the handkerchief which was round
its neck, to Mrs. Johnson. I afterwards took the box
containing the Lody of the child to Mr. Blaggs, a surgeon.
Cross-examined—The lid of the box was not close
down upon the ehild.

Francis Blaggs—l am a surgeon, living at South
Leverten, Nottinghamshire. On the 3d of December, I
was called in to examine the body of a child by Constable
Smith. It appeared to be from eighteen months to two
years old. It appeared to have died recently, not longer
than a week, if so long. I observed a contusion on
the left side of the temple bone, and also one
on the right ear, and the face swollen and livid. The
tongue was compressed between the teeth. I examined
the heal internally and found on removing the scalp
coagulated blood corresponding with the mark,on the let t
temple. There were also bruises on the left ear. I found
srohmoese blowsextravamsautset hadbvloeobdeeon cantuhsd
the left side of the head.
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strument in my judgment. There was a
fastened twice round the neck of the child. The inner
fold of the handkerchief was tight and the outer one
was loose. There was a mark on the left side of the
handkerchiefeblunt
neck, but I did not notice it before I took the handker-
chief, so that I do not know whether or not it was
produced by the handkerchief. There were appear-
ances of strangulation about the child. The eyelids
were swollen, the tongue pressed between the teeth, the
nails blue, and the fingers contracted. I think the hand-
kerchief was not sufficiently tight to prevent respiration;
but the mark of the ligature round the neck which I
saw indicated violence sufficient to cause strangulation., In
my opinion the death was caused by the strangulation
and the blows combined, but either of them in my opi-
nion was sufficient to cause death.
Cross-examined—Bruises applied to a dead body be-
fore it was cold would produce discolouration.
(The trial was proceeding when our report left.)

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
A tall, powerful man, named Flemming, was charged
with pielting a lady's pocket of a purse containing
shillings.
One of the Detective Police Force stated that he ob-
served the prisoner and several other suspicious looking
individuals dodging a lady in Gray's Inn-lane. He
watched them, and having observed the prisoner lift
the lady's dress and take her purse, he rushed up to
secure him, but was knocked down. Recovering him-
self, however, immediately, be saw the prisoner run-
ning in the direction of Holborn. He started in pursuit
and succeeded in taking him into custody.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say to the charge,
was fully committed for trial.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The nuptials of the
Hon. Sarah Elizabeth Copley, eldest daughter of Lord
Lyndhurst, and Mr. H. J. Selwen, only son of Mr.
Selwen, of Down Hall, Essez, were celebrated on
Tuesday last. After the performance of the
religious rite at St. George's Church, Hanover-
square, the numerous relatives and friends of both
families present to witness the ceremony adjourned to
the mansion of the Noble and Learned Lord, in George-
street, where a sumptuous d4jeuner was given by Lord
and. Lady Lyndhurst to celebrate the happy event. The
fair bride, who was attended to the altar by her sisters,
the Hon. Sophia and Hon. Georgiana Copley, and
Misses Mary and Gertrude Selwen, was attired in a
bridal costume, composed of a robe of rich white glace,
flowered with costly Brussels point lace, and veil of the
same. Shortly before three o'clock the newly-married
couple, after taking leave of their assembled relatives,
started, in a travelling chariot and four grays, for Daw-
fish. Devon, to spend the honeymoon.
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAIL-
WAY.—At the meeting of the directors of this company,
held yesterday, it was decided to recommend a dividend
of 488. per 100/. of Consolidated Stock for the past half-
year, after laying aside 15,0001. towards a reserve fund,
gis notified in their last 'Alf-yearly report,