The Sun. — 1862-06-10 (London, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A terrible drama has beer. enacted in the neiahboarhood of Rothwell, near Leeds, involving (as is supposed) a case of child murder and the suicide of the mother, a young girl, aged 18, named Jane Taylor, the daughter of parents residing at Wakefield, who bore a reputable character, and has for some time past been a domestic servant in the household of Mr. John 'Wilson, cornfactor, Doncasterroad, Wakefield. The young yeoman had an aunt named Hopton residing at Rothwell; and last Sunday being Rothwell feast, she and her brother, Joseph Taylor, went to visit the aunt. There was nothing in the conduct of the young woman which attracted the attention of her relatives, except that she complained of " tic," and was a quarter of an hour in the privy, on her returning from whence she took a shovel to cover up some vomit, alleging that she had been sick. About eight o'clock the brother and sister returned to Wakefield, and shortly after, in a hedge on a road over wnich they would pass, a man named George Crossland found a newly-born male child, which was then alive. He gave it to policeman Atkinson, and, inquiries being set on foot, Mrs. Hopton sent her daughter to Wakefield to see if all was right with Jane, and she retuned with the answer that all was right except ar little headache. Soon after her cousin lett the young woman left Mr. Wilson's house, and was never again seen until her body was found on Friday morning in a pond belonging to Col. Smyth, M.P., at Heath, near Wakefield. The circumstances which led to the suspicion that this unfortunate woman is the mother of the child are very strong, and are supported by discoveries made in the privy, and by a piece of flannel found near it which corresponds with the piece of flannel in which the child was wrapped. The two pieces make one garment which it is known belonged to the deceased girl. There was no suspicion that she was enciente. Lie brother of the young on bail. womt!. was taken into custody, but released There seems to be nothing in his conduct at all suspicious.  THE MOORS AND FollESTS.—The reports as to the extensive and valuthe condition of the grouse from all able ranges in Perth and Argyle shires continue to be cheering and promising. The recent heavy falls of rain upon the hills have been somewhat against the young broods and hatching, but a few days' genial sunshine and reeling winds will remedy this temporary damage. The nests are plentiful and well filled. In some parts of Aberdeenshire disease is said to have made some havoc a ,the birds, and the prospects are very desponding rpinyoninot the case in the shires of Perth and Argyle. On allisth-se ranges in Rob Roy's country, around " Glenartney's hazel shade" and Lochearn, tho banks of the Garry and the Tummel, and around Schielhallion and the moors of Breaand apparently Breadalbane, and around Loch Katrine, the crop is to be very superior both as regards condition abundance. A large number of the moors have been let, in setne cases at increased rents, and for those still in the market there 1.7 likely to be a keen competition, from the number of inquirers after shooting grounds. From the forests eh the accounts are equally and satisfactory. The grass in all the glens and a corries was early, rich, and abundant, and the antlered tribenng forward condition. So much so isthis se the hc consequently nesaesq y in euthat l many a of the deer in the forests of Gleuartney and Breadalbane, 49.:c., are expected to be free from velvet during the month of August. —Scotsman.