The Sun. — London, England, 1858-01-05 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Jan 4. The Court passed a sentence of 12 months' hard labour. POLICE lATELLIGEACE—Tait. 4. atrILDHALL.--James O'Neale was brought up h3fore Alderman Rose, charged with cutting and woundinga man named Richardson, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. It appeared from the evidence of the wife of the wounded man, that he and the prisoner had some dispute as to the payment for some rum, during which the prisoner accused Richardson of having an snimosicy against him, which so offended him (Richardson)that he took off his coat and challenged the prisoner to fight, and when the latter left him for the purpose of avoiding a conflict Richardson followed him up to his own room, and was S3Oll aftervrards heard to exclaim that the prisoner had a poker, and he (Richardson) ran down stairs bleed ing from the head. He was very angry and excited, and , was t ►ken to the hospital, where he remains in a precarious condition, suffering from a fractured skulL The prisoner was remanded. THAMES. —Patrick Murphy, aged 23, George Sims, 22, and Catherine Crawley, 19, who gave the name of Sullivan when she was taken into custody, were charged with being concerned with John Hen nessey, remanded on Saturday, Jeremiah Kallaher, sentenced to two months' imprisonment on the 28th ult., Catherine Halloran, sentenced to 10 days' im prisonment on the same dty, and others, in the wilful murder of Henry Morgan, a police constable of the K division, who was savagely beaten byKal laher and others on Boxing.day, and died of the injuries he received on Saturday. The particulars of the occurrence appeared in The Sun of yesterday. After several witnesses hal been examined, Mr. &lie said he should remand the prisoners till Monday next, but he had no objection to take bad for Sims, if he could procure it. Sims was remanded with the other prisoners. An application is to be made to the Secretary of State for .Kallaher to be brought up at the next ex amination. SOUTHWARK.—A short time ago two rather good-looking coloured girls, who gave the names of Minnie and RO3O Avers, appeared before Mr. Bar cham, being charged with begging in the s'reets. They were dressed as American slaves,. and sta'ed that they had escaped from Mr. Robertson's plan tation in Kentucky. Their case in the first instance excited much commiseration among the charitable, . owing to the artful manner in which they told tht.ir story, 'and the distress through which they wen supposed t o h ave passed from Kentucky to Phila d Iphia. The result VI 9.4 that his worship had let ters from several of the nobility offering them o com fortable home s , an d several sumsofmoney were forwarded f or th e i r present neceAsites ißur cham, howev e r, was not perfectly s:tieue ie d t . as to letter he the correctness o f th e i r story, owing to a u received, consequ ent l y th e matter was p hands of Mr. B r a n f or d , the superint endentnotthhee M diviiion, who directed Sergeant Baker t 1 m a k e inquiries about them. The result was that after considerable difficulty he suTected the younger girl was the daughter of an Irishman residing in Wentworth-street, where they lodged, and an old black woman in Chelsea Hospital. They were cou fronted' before Mr. Burcham, when they ail reso lutely denied all knowledge of each other. His worship, however, was of opinion that the tale was &Ivo, consequently he refu ed to have anything more to do with them, and they were cautioned not t , .) beg again. A doubt still existed that they might be what they gated, e4pecially as there was no di rect prof to the contrary. However, it is now set at rest, Mr. Burcham having received the folio wieg letter ftein one or the guardians of Chelsea Hor..- pital "Sir,—lt may be satiNfactory to you to know that you art iyed at a proper c lusion in this case, as proved by the following :—The father of the girli (who was an inmate of Chelsea workhouse) was taken ill and died yesterday, and to_•lay the mother, accompanied by one of the girls, called to see the corpse, and when again confronted with the porters at once acknowledged that the It 11010 was a deceit, which they were prompted by others to practise on the benevolent.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, "J. U. WALKER, "One of the Guardians of the Poor of Chelsea. " Wellington square, Dec. 31." LAMBETH. —Sarah Bennett, a middle-aged woman of dissipated appearance, was charged with causing such injuries to be inflicted on her daugh ter Mary, a girl of 16 years of age, that she is a The January Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the county of Middlesex commenced this morning at Clerkenwell, before Mr. Pashley, Q.C., Assistant- Judge, Mr. Pownall, Chairman, and a bench of magistrates. The calendar contains the names of 46 prisoners. The Assistant Judge shortly charged the grand jury. fV a new arrangement made for holding the sessions there will, in effect, be a general gaol delivery for the county every fortaigLt, which will be a great convenience to th e p u bli c, and the average period of priseueiN being kept in castody before trial will not exceed eight days. James Mitchell, 33, was convicted of feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Margaret Allen, and stealing therein a feather-bed her prope r ty. Th e pr i soner got through a window In the prosecutrix's house, and had packed up her bed ready for carrying off, when he was detected. He was sentenced to hard labour fur one year. Alfred Johnson, 17, and John Macdonald, 22, were indicted for breaking and entering thed g house of Edward Smith, and stealing therein two rings, value 101., his property. There was another charge against Johnson, in which Macdonald was included as au accessory after the fact. Johnson pleaded guilty. This offence was committed on the 14th Dec. by Johnson breaking a pawnbroker's window and taking out the property men'ioned. The case against Macdonald was that he aided and abetted, but the evidence was not conclusive, and he was acquitted. Johnson was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. - Joseph Preston, a broker, was indicted fora i for cible entry upo n p rem i ses, b e l ong i ng t o and n the possession of Ed war d S m i t h . H e pleaded guilty, and was ordered to enter into a recognisance to come up for judgment when called upon. Alfred Moran, 30, one of the most expert pick pockets of the day, was convicted of stealing a sum of money from the person of one Ww. Henry Allen, in Oxford-street. He was detected by Gre3n, a city officer. Five convictions were proved against him ; two of them were under the Summary Act, and when before the magistrate on this charge he pleaded hard not to be sent to trial, but the magis trate committed him, as be was known to be an old offender. The Court passed upon him a sentence of five years' penal servitude. Richard Birch, 29, pleaded guilty to an indict ment charging him with assaulting and wounding Alex. John Grimmer, the gate porter at Maryle bone workhouse. The prisoner is a low disorderly fellow, and lived with a woman named Macdonald, whose character is as bad as his own. They had been for some time in receipt of relief, and the prisoner had been an inmate of the house at times, and on the evening of the 30th Dec. they made their appearance at the gate and demanded relief. • The prosecutor told him he could not ralieve them, and said the prisoner could have a ticket for the stoneyard, where he could earn is. a-day. The prisoner said that was no use to him, and on the prosecutor turning his he'd for a moment he struck him a blow near the eye, which brought-tfinftct the ground in a state of insensibility. The prism - ter, as well as the woman he lived with, bad been in prison for assaults and misconduct, and he had refused work when it was offered him in his trade of a shoemaker. Mr. Tubbs, the relieving officer, proved tirtt the prisoner and the woman had received ample assist ance from the 'mist), and that he was an associate of thieves. The AssiAant-Judge sentenced hitn to six months' hard labour. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecution, in structed by Mr. Randall, the parish solicitor. (Before Mr. Creasy.) George Timlock, labourer, was indicted for steal ing 16 bushels of oats, the property of Mes.rs. Curtis, Harvey, and Co., gunpowder manufacturerA, of Islewortb, his masters ; and James Wright was indicted for feloniously reeving the same. Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted ; Mr. Mills appeared for the defence. The jury acquitted both prisoners. Thomas Rickards was brought up from the House of Correction to be dealt with as an incorrigible roue and vagabond, under the Vagrant Act. The prisoner is a notorious beggar, and was taken into cu,ltody by a constable of the Mendicity Society for stopping passers-by in Tavistock-square and be seeching the m "t o g i ve a few coppers to a poor hardworking -roan with a large f am il y to supvrt, to help hi m on the r0a,:1." The prisoner has lived by begging for 30 years, and a list of no leis than 25 convictions was put in against him, that being leis than the actual number. Mr. Creafy sentenced him to be kept to bard labour for one year. Geo. Savill, 19, was found guilty of attempting to pick pockets in Whitechapel, and desperAtely kicking the constable (181 H) who took him into custody. Mr. Le Breton pros .!euted, Mr. Platt was for the isoner. • Tll E SVi LONDON TtTESDAY EVEI N NG J A NITA MY' ........., f -------- -•••-- Tkhousa • s ) (3 m p aeind to oy belK ernryooTni provided the to take offices intoiu Saul-street custody a l l ; ;near the moor ;the other half of the labourers cause it was owina r h 4 can arsenic thoroughlyil present in the infirmary of Camberwell. wo_ in such a state that it is almost impossible s .. recover. . d to belt . , The unfortunate sufferer was pronounced 4. , might be disorderly, or who might attempt to Did you '- a a i n te, old . evening last tilt , so dangerous a state on Saturday .. t 1 he a disturbance on not receiving their day's put on ,- Mr. Smithers, the master of the workhouse, Wirt e 4 r for half a day's work. sanv hi 3 . on Mr. Norton at this court to reques t, t hat Ascroft— The labour -masters should make a ' would proceed to the workhouse and take her de - turn to you of the ringleaders. position, and did so in the presence of the prisoner, Toe Chairman—The labour -masters name' who had been taken into custody. On being put ho are great " spouters" (talkers) am'- to the bar yesterday the deposition of her daughte r hey are active man, and are always as taken by Mr. Norton was read over as the only Mr. Aseroft--You should sun , - evidence at present against her, and was as fol- you, and let them know that '-' lows :—" About Monday fortnight my father and . With the view o f en f or r' mother were quarrelling. My father wanted to , 'ribbons undertook to beat her, and I tried to prevent it, and she gave me c' to workhouse, ar ' a push and threw me down stairs. My father hit ai Id he left the her, and gave her a black eye and set it bleeding. The reli , I was suffering then with erysipelas, and was going tb e In , - to lie down on the bed, but she turned me out of it, th( got into bed herself, and compelled me to lie on ' the floor. My mother was very tipsy at the time, and my father on coming up stairs found me on the floor, and this was the reason for his hitting my mother. I was following down stairs and begging of my father not to have any more words with my mother, when she pushed me down stairs, and I fell with the back part of my head on the edge of the stairs. The push she gave me was a violent one, and mother always spat her spite on me when she had a quarrel with father. Immediately after the fall I felt great pain in my held, and I have been no better since. I had been ill a fortnight before this, and had not done anything to provoke her. When mother gets drunk, which she does at least once a-fortnight, she is like a mad woman. She has struck me many a time, but not so badly as this, but I hope you will not punish her, for she has a young baby." house near the moor ; the other half of the labourers cause it was owing. On Monday I mixed the to be paid by Kenyon at the offices in Saul-street ; arsenic in an old quart pot, which I cleanssd policemen to be provided to take into custody all thoroughly afterwards. who might be disorderly, or who might attempt to Did you eat any of the butter that you say was create a disturbance on not r e c e i v i ng th e i r d ay ' s put on your son's pudding ? Yes ; we had all the pay for half a day's work. . same. Mr. Ascroft—Th e l a b our-masters should make a' Did you mix the arsenic with butter ?—Yes ; return to you of the ringleaders. with fresh butter. Tee Chairman—The labour -masters named two ' Did your son Frederick know where you kept i I n g d t o h n e ' t same Mink time h e e a s I did. did. 1 T w p i e o y are e great aetiv e " s e p i l o ti l t l e i r d s ' a ' r ( e t a a l l k w e a r s y ) e s a p m o o u n t f t I g t h e m . • h t h o e le poison i u th Mr. Asc ro ft--Y ou s h ould summon them before i Wasn't y ?e o m ur o w lo te subject to fits of a morning ? you, and let them know that they are watched. Yes, nearly every morning. When she came to she With the view of enforcing the regulations, Mr. Aiould do anything. She looked as wild as a hare, e gibbons undertook to provide 30 police officers at and did not know what she was about. t' to workhouse, and 30 at the offices in Saul-street; ; Mary Aun Fleming, who lives next door, corro ai td he left the meeting for that purpose. bbrated as to the nature of the sufferings which the The relieving officers were directed to go and pay several persons had undergone. She had always tb e men immediately, as they arrived, and before thought there was something peculiar about the the ry assembled in a crowd, and a number of guar- deceased woman, but she did not consider her at dig ns volunteered to attend at each place. all deranged. Believed she was subject to fits, and re!he Chairman said the disturbances were no had heard that she was rather intemperate in her doudot provoked by a score or two of refractory men. htbit4, though she did not know it to be true. It was resolved that the labour masters should Never saw her more cheerful than ou Thursday be re quired to furnish immediately the names of morning, and heard her singing two or three times all tb e leaders and agents in the mutiny, and also during the morning. give - .notice to the men that all who were willing Edward Henry Moore, chemist and member of to work a full dal/ might receive a shilling. The the Pharmaceutical Society, deposed that he mate commit tee was further empowered to purchase an examination of what had been represented to wheelbarrows, spades, and other implements, and Win as the vomit of the woman. In that he dis to take such means as were necessary for carrying cove red arsenic. He had also analysed a per , ion out the labour test. Mr. Ascroft promised to of the pudding which he had received from Mr, attend while the men were being paid. This was Fuller, surgeon. In that he also found arsenic in the state of things when our reporter left. To great abundance ; infect, so great was the quantity prevent a misunderstanding, it is necessary to LI arsenic in the pudding that he believed 20z. of state that ls. a-day is not the only sum the it would be sufficient to destroy human life. He parCesreceive ; a man with a wife and two children, also examined a quantity of flour, about 2oz. or for instance, will receive 2s. in money, 2s. in kind, 3oz , which had been taken from the bag, but he and six pays on the moor—total, 10s. The men did not discover the least trace of arsenic. From intended on Saturday night to make an aft ick upon Mr. Fuller he had also received a'dark-coloursd the provision shops in the town if they had not fluid, which was said to be the evacuation of the received their shilling. man 20 hours aft a- he was supposed to have taken the poison. In that he also succeeded iu discovering the presence of arsenic. Tue inquiry was then adjourned for a short time for the purpose of awaiting the medical evidence respecting the post-mortem examination which the jury had ordered to be made. On resuming, Thomas Fuller, surgeon, of Shoreham, gave evi dence as:to his being called in to attend the family on Thursday. He described their symptoms, which were such as would be occasioned by arsenic. When first called in he had not been aware that Puttick was in the habit of keeping arsenic in the house, and upon bearing it from one of the neighbours he asked Puttick, who admitted it was true, and described where it was kept, and the position in which it was placed in the chest up stairs. In answer to his inquiry, the deceased woman sail she could not account for the poison getting into the pudding. 'Witness then spoke to the post-mortem examination, which he had j us t come from makin g on the Codies. Arsenic was not to be detected in either of the bodies with the naked eye, although the redness of the intestines would lead to the belief that they had died from tire effect of arsenic. From each ho had tskeu the stomach, kidneys, and a piece of the liver, and has them preserved in separate jars for analytical pur poses, should any subsequent discovery render that necessary. Ro' ert Puttick, cousin to Thomas Puttick, had been present white the family were suffering from the effect of the poison. Knowing that Puttick was in the habit of keeping arsenic in the house, he asked the deceased woman if she had broughtdown any arsenic ? She said she had not. He then asked her if she ever touched the arsenic at all on any pretence ? She said "she never touched it ; she would not do so. No one was allowed to go near it but herhusband, who was very particular." Wit ness Irsel also been present at the &eelr of the bay. Just before his death he implored him, if he had anything to say to him to say it at once. The lad gave him no answer, and very shortly died in the greatest agony. Sergeant Parnell, of the East Sussex constabulary, deposed to having received two packages of arsenic from Mr. Fuller, and that they had not since left his possession. Teis being all the evidence, The Coroner spoke of the mysterious nature of the case, the absence of any motive to lead any one to the commission of the crime of administering the arsenic, and also the absence of any evidence tend ing to implicate anybody in its commission. It was clear beyond doubt that the two deceased had died from the effect of arsenic, but beyond that the evidenca did not go. It would be for the jury to say,whether they would return a verdict to that efect at once, or adjourn the inquiry for further evidence. Toe jury then retired; and after a short delibera tion decided upon adjourning the inquest for a fort night. In reply to the questions of the mother, the poor girl, who seems rapidly approaching her end, acknowledged that her mother had gone to Dr. Flowers's for her, but she was then tipsy. She de nied having fallen out of the bed herself, and said her mother pushed her out. She (the mother), she said, aggravated her father before he struck her, and in conclusion she said she (her mother) had pushed her down stairs purposely, and caused the injuries to her head from whioh she was suffering. The prisoner, declining at present to say any thing in defence, was remanded. TEE SEIOREHAM POISOSING CASE.- INQUEST ON ME BODIES. Yesterday an inquest was held at the Burrell Arms Inn, Shoreham, before Mr. F. H. Gell, co roner for East Sussex, upon the bodies of Est' er Puttick, married woman, aged 37, and her step son, F. Puttick, aged 15, who came by their deaths in the manner and under the circumstances de scribed in the following evidence : The jury having viewed the bodies in the cot tage in which the tragedy took place proceeded to a bedroom in the same cottage to hear the deposi tions of Thomas Puttick, who is still too ill to leave his bed. On being sworn he deposed as follows : I, am a butcher at Ne w Sh ore h am . E st h er Ann liuttick, one of the deceased, was my wife, and F. Puttick, the other deceased, was my son. My wife was 37 years of age, and my son nearly 16. He was not engaged in any business. On Thursday morn ing last, 31st of Dec., about 9 o'clock, I weot up to my slaughter-house. We talked about the dinner. I think I said " There is a little flour in the house, you may as well make a little pudding." The Coroner—Who proposed this pudding, you or she ?—Well, I cannot tell you exactly. I think I said " You may as well make a little pudding." What sort of a pudding ?--A hard pudding—dour and water. After that I went away, and came back a little after 1 o'clock, when I had done work. My little boy was then gone up the hill, and my wife was busy washing. When I came in she left off, and came aril put the dinner on the table. She placed pudding and cabbage and bacon on the table. —Did you see her take the pudding out of the pot ? —I think that was done in the other room. It was not on the table when I came in, she pre pared the dinner in an adjoining room. It con sisted of boiled cabbage, pudding, and bacon, all hot. My son, the deceased, did not dine with us then. My wife and I dined together. She partook of the pudding, bacon, and cabbage. I did not ob serve whether she ate heartily or not. I also par took of everything. I ate more of the cabbage than I did of anything else. Just before I left the slaughter-house I had a bun and a pint of porter, and that rather took nay appetite away. I did not eat so heartily as Ido sometimes. In the course of the morning I had partaken of two pin's of por ter. My sea came home about an hour afterwards. The first thing after dinner my wife cleared away, and she came over very sick and pale. She had a pain in her chest, of which she had complained for some time. That was about a quarter of an hour after dinner. Some people then came in to see what was the matter. My wife's sickness continued a long time, and she vomited a great deal. What do you call a long time 7—Well, it con tinued all that day and all night. She was at the -same time purged. For some time, about a mouth before, she had complained of a pain in her chest, and she did se also on that morning, about nine o'clock, just before I went out I also experienc.al symptoms of sickness very shortly afterward.% About half-past 2 I began to vomit also. People still kept coming in, and I said I would go up to Mr. Hore, surgeon. I did go to Mr. Hors, and told him how she was, that she had got a pain in her &de. He asked me what she had been eating, and I told him. He said s h e b a d th e spasms. I did not mention the vomiting and purging, because the had not begun hardly when I went away. She kept ou retelling and retching, but could not bring any thing up. Mr. Here did not come to see her, but gave some stuff in a little bottle, the half of which he told me to give her then, and the remainder in half an hour. I was gone about a quarter of an hour. On my return I found my wife rather worse than when I went away ; she was distracted almost. The people downstairs, or one of them, sent for Mr. Fuller. I w a s i n suc h pa i n t h at I did not know what to do, and could not go. When my little boy came in, that was about half-past 3, I said to him, " Fred, don't eat that cabbage ; it has upset me most terribly." I then set out the pudding, which hal been cut off, buttered, and placed in the oven for him. He did not eat any of the cabbage, but took the pudding that had been cut off for him, and some of the bacon. After dinner he went up to the train to watch for Mr. Fuller, who was absent when first sent for. On the road the boy also took ill, and could hardly get home. By a juror —The pudding was prepared and cooked in my absence. The Coroner—did you see your son on his return? —Yes; he looked very pale indeed. H-3 also vomited. He then went upstairs and lay in this bed. We were then all ill together, but my symp toms were not so violent as theirs. Mr. Fuller came about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and attended to us. My son died on Thursday evening at 7 o'clock, and my wife died on Friday morning be tween 11 and 12 o'clock. The Coroner—Do you happen to know where the flour was procured of which the pudding was made I—lt was bought the day before. Who bought it f—Why, my little boy went after it. We had a pudding of it the day before, of which I partook. On the previous day we hail also bacon and cabbages. The filar was bought at Mr. Adams' ; he is a miller. I did not experience any evil consequences from the dinner on Welles day. On Thursday morning I saw the bag in which the flour is usually kept. It contained something which I believe was flour. The re mainder of the flour was consumed on Thursday. The flour was kept in a bag in a cupboard. You think the pudding on Thursday was made of the same flour as that on Wedueday ?—I am certain it was, sir. The bacon was kept in the same cupboard. The whole of the bacon was eaten on Thursday. The cabbage came from our 0. irdee. It was cut partly on th e same morn i ng and partly the clay before. It was not put in the cupbeard. The Coroner—Now, are you in the habit of using arsenic for any purpose ?—Yes, sir. For what purpose ?—For destroying mice, sir, for farmers. Had you any in the house on Thursday ?- Yes, sir. ROBBERY OP BANK NOTES AT LIVERPOOL, AND CLEVER CAPTURE OP THE THIEVES. On Saturday evening last, a telegraphic commu nication was received at the Greenwich Police station giving th, descripti on o f t wo men w h o, after sleeping at the coffee shop of Mrs. Armitage, 148, Dale-street, Liverpool, absconded after forcing' au entrance into the bad-room and stealing there from 1351. in Bank of Erglaud notes and gold, together with two gold brooches. Whilst staying at the coffee-house one of the men had a letter di rected for him to a collegemanin Green w i c h Hos pital, and on the robbery being discovered, the first thought that suggested itself was that the thieves belonged to, an 4 might possibly be found at Green wich. Accordingly, an officer of the Liverpool con stabulary, with the son of Mrs. Armitage, arrived in Greenwich on Sunday, in order to prosecute their search. Yesterday morning, about noon, they were together at the Prince of Wales Tavern, London sir, et, Greenwich, when the bawl of the Royal M trines happened to pass through the town play ing. This attracted the attention of the officer and Mr. Armitage ' and whilst tlaiisnteendinthgetao.istihsetanmceusoicf they espied the two identical me n w h om they were gct obtained and Wyman, caban 72 It, both was then men Constablesu w es e t re of s , sp a me n ei and having y a 2 v iln i 3 n st b called, into which they were both forced, when one of them was observed to throw something out of the window, which, on being picked up, was found to be a 101. note. They were then taken to the station, and on the cab being sub .equently search ed, a purse containing Si. in gold was found under one of the seats. They gave their names He,.ry Smith, 23, and Robert Moore, 20, but refused their address. Yesterday afternoon, from further ieformation received, Mr. Inspector Wilson caused a Greenwich Collegeman, named Phillmore, and his wife, and a woman named Minze, to be appre hended on a charge of feloniously receiving a part of the stolen property, and from facts then divulged, the Wt. in gold, and seven 5/. notes were after wards taken possession of by the police from a man with whom the amount had been deposited, uncon scious that it was the proceeds of the robbery, and wh o will appear as a witness against the prisoners. SHOCKING( ACCIDENT AT TOTTENHAM. inquiry was gone ion; inquiry int O o nSat before u, rltt l y r. evening Baker,a loattli Chapereaux Inn, Park Station, Tottenham, relative to the de all of Mary Anne Herbst, aged 21, who was thrown out of on Thursday last. nesses that the deceased wa s i n t h e vehicle, which l a t chaiseapp appeared from in Marsh- eviden ce law s of several wit. was drawn by one horse, with two male friends. They down th e l ane a b out four o ' c ' oc k in at a ste a d y pace, when they were tli wereafafternoon, r going oon, met by a cart going in a contrary direction. In order to avoid a collision, the driver of the vehicle in which the deceased was caused the near wheel to pass up a bank. In doing this the wheel came suddenly in contact with the stump of a tree shit had been cut do wn, Wh en t h e chaise cart was t urne d completely over, the de ceased and one o f h er coin panions being under it. She was removed to the Chapereaux Inn, and a surgeon was sent for, who at once stat-d that life was extinct. Thera was a severe injury on her forehead, and it was the opinion of the medi ca l gentleman that she h a d re• ceived a fracture of th e skull, instant d ea th. which had caused Do you know what quanti►y ?—No, sir, I don't know exactly ; 2 oz or 3 oz. perhaps. White arsenic ?—YeP, sir. Where did you keep it ?—ln a cheat, sir, in the next bed-room ; I have kept it there for year.. Is the chest kept locked?—lt was in general kept locked. My wife very often wanted the key, as she kept her apparel in the same chest. It was not locked that morning. _ Had your wife the key that morning ?—Well, think she had, became the key was in it. She ha, In answer :to the Coroner, it was stated by some of the witnesses that the spot in question in Marsh lane the road was only 16 feet wide, and too narrow for two v e hi c l es to pass, The foreman and some of th e jury observed that Marsh-lane wa s a great . thoruuuhfara to the Eastern Counties Railway, and that it ought to be widened at the" pact where the accident happened. Tue Coroner observed that he would write to the Tottenham Bo rd of Works, and that he had no doubt, upon the repre3erita.tion of the juty, the roadway would be widened: Verdict—" Accidental death." access to the chest as well as I. Sometimes I kept the key and sometimes she did. I did not see the chest that morning. You had not been to it for any arsenic ?—No, sir, not since list Monday ; a week to-thy. I think since then my wife kepi the key. fulled in tho lock of the chest. The key was Now, what way was the arsenic kept in the chest? —One little lot of about two ounces as near as .1 c:n tell, was contained in a bladder. That I used to carry about with me. Tho lemainder, about the same quautity, was in a pape-. Did you notice, when you fait went to the cheat, wln..th3r the paper had been disturbed at all sir, I did not. When Mr. Fuiler took it out of the elicit I don't know what state it was in. II OW near was the flour placed to the arson - c ? The fic) an( ur was . pla ce d i n a cupboard down st a i rs ,• 1 t h e arsenic, was kept in a chest which w.ts up stai ti rs. [.IDITERTISESIENT.] The Earl of Aldb.,rough and Iloilo way' Pills .--An astounding cure by this miracu lous medicine, after every other ; le ans had failed. See xtract from his lordship's letter, dated Villa Messina, Legbcro, F e b. 21, 18 45 :—" To, Professor Holloway. Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a our of a di sor d er i n my liver and stomach, nbich all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the Continent, had rim , I b een-able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Alrienbad. (Signed) ALDBoßooan." Th ese wonderful pills w ill cure an y dis orders of the liver nr stomach.—SoN (also Holloway's Oint rent) ; at Professor Holloway's EstablishmentP, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Constantinople ; A. Guidiey, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. A juror--Did any purpose 7—No, never ; she would never touch it ; and when anybody came from the country for some " stuff," she always waited until I came home. She knew that it yam arsenic I had in the chest, Your wife ever use any.arsenic fur and could not have taken it out in a mistake for flour. After her illness Eshe did not say to what 5, 1858 MEhANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A RESPECT ABLE TRADESMAN. Yesterday an inquest was held at the Hope Tavern, Park-sireet, Do; set-square, Maryleb before Mr. Wakicy, Coroner for the Westorn Division of Middlesex, on view of the body of Mr. Henry Mayne, aged 32, a perfumer and hair dresser, residing in the above street, who put a period to his existence by swallowing a quantity of the oil of almonds. THE RIOT AT ASHTON. At the Ashton Town-hall yesterday morning a full bench of magistrates assembled for the exami nation of the militia-men apprehended en Friday evening for being concerned in the riot. The Mayor (Mr. H. Booth) presided. Adjutant Russell and Lieut. Fleury were present. The names of the 14 prisoners produced were as follows :—Jas. M`Der mot, M, Riley, P. Caley, P. Garrerdy, P. Coyne, J. Mallabond, J. Kane, J. Skelly, J. M ur thi s, J . Bayley, P. Walsh, E. Conelly, P. Smith, and J. Cuff. The number of militiamen apprehended was 16, but they were delivered up by the police to the custody of the officer in command of the regiment on the understanding that they s h ou ld be brought before the magistrates yesterday. Only 14, how ever, were produced, and it was stated that two had given wrong names on their apprehension. Mr. N. Buckley, the chief constable, stated that about seven o'clock on Friday evening a civilian, named Murphy, went to the Shepherd's Inn, Old street, and quarrelled with the persons drinking , there. On leaving, he said there would be a dis turbance, and he returned shortly with six or seven militiamen, carrying their belt s i n th e i r h an d s, and one of the said, " Where is the man who dare strike me ?" Another cried out, "Go on Milli gan," and they then attacked the civilians with their belts. They were driven out, and when out-, side they broke the windows. Their numbers in creased, and they divided iwo parties, by one of which the shop of Mr. Stanley wai entered and the windows broken. They marched through the streets, brandishing their belts and shouting. The fire-boll was rung, special constables summoned, and 20 militiamen apprehended, but four were afterwards discharged, having been taken to the Town-hall merely to protect them from the crowd. The first witnesses examined were John Harling, a tripe-dresser, who was at the Shepherd's Inn at the time of the riot ; Eliza Cunningham, the land lady ; and Dunn, the policeman sent f or t o th e public-house. These gave evidence corroborative of the chief constable's statement, and proved that the gas-piping of the house was torn up and the glasses smashed. Dr. Lees stated that he was passing along OA street shortly atter 7 o'clock on Friday evening. On going up the Avenue he saw shopkeepers putting up their shutters, and some of the w i n d ows b ro k en. On going towards Cunningham's public-house he saw three or four militiamen running from that direction, and carrying their belt s i n th e i r b an d s. Three of them rushed at witness, saying, " Thats him," They struck him several times over the head and face with their belts. His hat was knocked off and broken in. At that moment a person in the crowd called out, " That is Dr. Lees," and witness said, "I am not a policeman, why do you attack me ?" After that he received no further molestation. His upper lip was bruised by a blow from a belt. He could not identiiy any of the prisoners. Sarah Ann Stanley said she alsistad in her father's shop at the corner of the Market Avenue. On Friday evening she saw the militiamen break ing windows at Cunningham's house with their belts, while another body of them were running up and down the streets. In a few minutes afterwards one of them entered her shop and struck her on the breast, knocking her down. There were several men outside, but only one entered. A messenger was sent for her father, and on his arrival lie pushel the militiaman of out of the shop. As soon as the man got outside he broke the glass with his belt. The next witnesses were Inspector Chadwick, J. Rogers, a man who saw the prisoner Malla!-)ond striking a persen with a bayonet, and took it from him after a severe struggle ; J. Kinder, a spinner, who was looking on when a militiamen struck him across the face, entirely smashing his nose and rendering him senseless. Ho was found in a field near Kenworthy's pit, where he had been carried and thrown down. He did not recover conscious ness till next morning. The prisoners were all identified as havrng taken part in riots, except Bayley, Kane, and Conolly, who were discharged. They all denied their guilt, asserting that they had only used their belts in self defence; and some of them attempted to show that they were intoxicated, but the evidence on this point was not conclusive. The 11 prisoners against whom the charge was proved were committed for trial at the Salford Sessions. TIIB SERIOUS DISTURBANCE AMONG THE PAUPERS AT PRESTON. In consequence of the threatenina attitude of the pauper labJurers, as reported in The Sil lb of yes terday, the magistrates on Sunday evening issued the following proclamation : " PROCLAMATION. " BOROUGH OF PRESTON TO WIT. " Whereas information has beengiven to her Majesty's justices of the peaco acting in and for the said borough, that large numbers of persons have tumultuously assem bled together in the immediate neighbourhood of the offices of the board of guardians, and used threats tend ing to a breach of the peace ; " The mayor and magistrates of the borough hereby warn all persons that such conduct is illegal, and that a repetition of it will subject the offenders to severe punish ment. "The mayor and magistrates further give notice that due means have been taken for the preservation of the future peace of the town. "By order, "THOS. DODD, Clerk to the Magistrates. "Preston, Jan. 3." The issuing -of this manifesto caused considerable sensation in the town. Yesterday (Monday) morn ing the moity of the men paid by Kenyon, reliev ing officer, went to work on the moor, but ceased at no n, refusing to be employed the whole of the day. The other half of the paupers (who have been put on in the afternoon hitherto) refused likewise to com ply with the order, and, instead of going to their work in the morning, did not attend till noun. There were large quantities of stones on Saturday night in the yardo f the relieving o ffi ces, Sand street, where would ue,,the.se ' the men are paid, hended at the • i ehterd a time that the disaffected labourers and it was appre prevent their being violence. hles, and tJul missiles in the outbreak of their y the atones were c trted away to swore in 50 special used .coos The magistrates rAcks, Fulwood, near Prestos ,, with the commandant of ba s ' and at the bar m o i e a, also ed 1 1;111.1)4st 1 oVoek in the of ernc on the guardians rat ° a r t the Boardroom • DSeatterth to consult as to the best method mutinous spirit of the mon and entorreeressing M.whurst, the i l vi lg thl regu lations. There were present Me9sr... waite (the chairman),Dixon, Longwortis, Ward, Jones, C. Satterthwaite, Dobson Mr. R. A s croft (the Town-Clerk), and Air. G a i y a t o rd the Superintendent of Police. Mr. A , -croft fa L t,' .-ested that the paupers should be kept ac separa t e as possible when they were paid ; and with that ob ject that they should be paid in different places and at different times. Mr. Dixon sugg ested that th e practice of disp e nsing th e re li e f half in meal should be discontinued, and the men paid entirely in money Ile knew the men were in the habit of selling the meal below its value—one man sold 41b. for 3d. It was agreed to pay the men entirely in money after the following rate :-Is. for a full day, and 6d. only for half a day. It was further arranged that Roscoe, relieving officer, should pay his men at the work- BANK RETURNS. It appeared from the examination of several witnesses that the deceased had been for some time in a low desponding state of mind in consequence of his business having fallen off. His reverses caused him frequently to give way to habits of intemper ance. On Thursday evening last he went out, and having made more free than usual with some of his acquaintances, on the following day he was more than usually depressed, and kept his bed. In the course of the afternoon he was discovered insensible by his wife, who immediately sent for medical at tendance, when it was ascertained thAt he was suffering from the effects of the poison. Ile died the same thy. The surgeon provei that death resulted from the poison the unfortunate man had swallowed. Mrs. Mayne, the widow of the deceased, who was deeply affected, and others, spoke to his low de sponding state of mind for some time past, after which the jary returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." The deceased has left a widow and family who were entirely dependent on him for support. THE PAST MILITARY YEAR. (From flee United Service Gazette.) The curtain has fallen on one of the most eventful years in the history of the British army. At the commencement of 1857 England was in a state of profound peace with the whole world. There was not even a black speck in any quarter of the horizon to denote the possibility of a storm. Confident in a perpetuity of calm, the Minister for War had, in strange opposition to his declared purposes, carried the reduction of the army to the lowest possible scale. His estimates were moderate enough to satisfy the most rigid sticklers for economy. Nothing had aug mented hut the Half-pay List, which in itself was evi dence of financial reduction. Oa the other hand, a young and able Commander-in- Chief, in spite of the obstructions to wholesome progress, bad pushed forward the good work of army reform, wringing from the Minister's reluctant hands the means of augmenting efficienc4. A system of depot battalions —intended as a nursery and reserve for regiments—was successfully introduced. Great improvements were effected in the schools of instruction in the use of the musket'. An Inspectorship of Infantry became a new feature in the army. The Queen's regulations underwent careful revision. The proper education of staff officers was insisted upon. Means were taken to form musical schools for the improvement of military bands, and a new description of mantra and platoon exercise came into use. To render the position of the subaltern more endurable, and check the baleful extravagance which dis tinguished military messes, the General Commanding-in- Chief made a generous effort to restrict the table expen diture of officers. A committee of the Home of Com tuone presented a report on the subject of promotion by purchase, in which, as on former eccasions, nothing was concluded, but which brought out in a striking manner the disinterested character of the head of the army, and a ae v plan was formed (And subsequently rectified) for qualifying the youth of England for commissions in the army. Finally, the ply of the assistant surgeons has been augmented by 25 per cent. In the midst of these and other wise measures, carried forward in a steady and unostentatious manner, a die mend was suddenly made for the services of troops in China. A war had arisen through a misunderstanding between the representatives of British interests and the China authorities, and as the first manifestation of hos tility was followed by murders and massacres of British subjects, an expedition was despatched under Lieut.- Gen. Aehburnhatn. But scarctly had the troops left the shores of this cont.try when news arrived of a mutiny in India of so serious a character that the services of nearly half the British army were instantly put in re• quieition to save to England her gorgeous Indian empire. Nearly 30,000 good soldiers of all arms were, within three months, despatched to Bengal, Madras, and Bom bay, for nearly the whole of the P e ninsul a had become the scene of sanguinary and devastating warfare. The costly effect of Lord Panmure's premature reduction then became apparent. The recruiting sergeant was obliged to exert himself vigorously, and the additional teaptation to enlist was held out of a bounty and a free kit—the latter having hitherto bees paid for by the sol dier. Commissions of ensigns were offered to gentlemen who could bring 100 men, and lieutenant-colonelcies e promised to those maj as who could raise entire regiments. Many militia regiments were forthwith em bodied, and a considerable increase was made to the s':rength of several regiments of the line by the addition of second battalion-. Pending the arrival in India of the reinforce. ments thus suddenly required onso large a scale, the few Queen's regiments stationed in the East bad manfully entered upon the work of rescuing the country from the mutineers, who were our own trained sepoys, numbering 70 to 80,000, and who had regained possession of &lithe important places in Upper India. The history of no army in the word presents so many brilliant pages as were supplied in an incredible short space of time, under a burning sun, in the worst period of the year, by the corps which proceeded to the rescue. The2Carabiueere, the 9th Lancers, the 14th Lighb Dragoons, the 60th &flee, the 75th, the Bth,. the 52d, the stl), the 90th, and the 93d, and above all the 64th and 78th Regiments have gained imperishable renown. The sweepiag march of Havelock will be remembered in after times as a thing unparalleled in' ancient or modern history. The skill of the general and the unconquerable spirit of his men were the theme of universal admiration. The former has had his reward in success, in honours, a pension, and a regiment—the recompense of the latter is to come. May it be roost liberal ! It cannot be on too generous a scale for their deservings. But let us not limit our tribute to those who have nobly dared and nobly done in the dreadful crisis. Very much praise and gratitude are due to the bream soldiers who, surrounded by thousands of miscreants thirsting for their blood, maintained their ground in the midst of perils, privations, and anxieties. 'The 32d at Luclenow are to be honoured, as were the 13th at Jel lalabad, and even more so, for their trials have been greater and their solicitude heightened by the presence of a vast number of helpless females and children. From the list of good soldiers whose names were an honour to the British army, a fearful deduction has been made by the ruthless scythe of death during the past year. We have lost veterans of Waterloo and the Peninsula—the men who had greatly distinguished themselves in Hindoetan. Generals Sir J. Macdonnell, Sir R. G s 11. Clarges, Sir W. 'ferries, Sir Nicholas Thorne, and Sir G. Berkeley were among the remaining few who followed the fortunes of the great Wellington. Sir John Doveton had no equal in the length and cha racter of his services in India. Sir 11. Lawrence had no peer in the brillency of a career, wrought out entirely by his own energy, courage, and great sagacity. N e ill an d Nicholson, of the Company's service, were also among the very meritorious officers eh mwe have lost. The roll bound by the cypiess would not be complete which should ignore their names and that of Sir H. Barnard, who fell too early in his promising life. Thus much of the past. It has been a year of great endurance—the army has been severely tried in several war , and in each instance has come out of the ordeal most houourably and successfully. Of the future we may cherish the most pleasing expectations. The road to im provement is open?. The hands which wield, the destinies of the army aro capable in every way, and are directed by sound heals and pure hearts: Some great changes are „ Lapis, which wi 1 largely augment their responsibility; and we most s i n cerely hope that the confidence of the country will be given to them that their labours may be lightened, and their proper sense of importance aug. ineuted. The army of India will, of course, almost im. eiktely pans iLto the hands of the Crown, involving a heavy amount of alditional care, and requiring some new f2atures of organisation. We may expect also to sec the Mi!itia placo.l more directly under tLe authority of the Commander-in-Chiet. Centrali ation indispen sable to efficiency, and just now we have several forc:s ackn >wleigicg dtstiuct authoride-s—a source of trouble and delay, if not of shifting responsibility. This done, and power being given to the Cimmander-ii.-Chief to ;lie a certain discretion in the pecuniary arrangeinents connected with the sale of commissions, without refer ring every paltry matter to the S cretary of State in the War Department, we may expect to see the military machinery work smoothly, and to the unquestionable advantage of the country. (ADVE ENT. j- SMUT AND HEARING SPECTACLES—. POWERFUL TELESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE CLASSES. —S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, W. By hee Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and ex traordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the distances. These Telescopes possess such eltraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with au extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly, The Royal Exhibition, 1851. —A valu able, newly-invented, very small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant. They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-course Glasses, with wonderful powers. - invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the greatest transparent power. The groat advantage dek.ved from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened and very Rigel persons are enabled t, employ their sight at the most minute eceupation—can see with tl.ooe lenses of a much less rnag,nify iug power—awl they do not require the frequent changes to the dau• gerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the mot+ remote part of the world 17 send ing one of the gLs.eses out .at their spectacles in a letter, and stating the dist ince from the eye they can read small l rut with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by stating their ago. Deafness.—Now Discovery.—The Ole-rule Vibrator, al rxtraordinarily powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for dearness, entirely different from all of aers, surpassing anything of the £kind that has been, or prob ably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the sk in, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinct lyat churchand at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensatie n of singing noises in the ears is entire v remov,d, and it aflords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39. Alto ularlo•streot, Piccadilly,— Opposite the York Hotel, W, An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in. Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the th day of Dee., 1857 : Average Amount. PRIVATE BANKS. Andover Bank, Andover -Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt Pomfret, and Co. 8,555 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury -Z. D. Hunt 20,949 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hodge, and C o 26,721 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 8,580 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-Barnard and Co. ... Bewdley Bank, Bewdley - Nichols, Baker, and Co OO • 9,83 Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-H. M. and G. Tubb 14,801 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham - Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 18,943 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham-J. L. Moilliet and Sons 5,656 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Oak and Co. 5.573 Boston Bank, Boston-Clavpons and Co. Boston Bank, Boston-T. Gee and Co. - - Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater -J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Miles, and Co 28,572 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbitry -J. C. and A Gillett Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 25,297 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham -Lloyds &Co 18,427 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. 10,015 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 43,994 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-H a ll, West, and Co. Burlington and Driffield Bank , Burlington- Harding, Smith, and C o Bury St. dmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Worliedge and Co Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Coste and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock C C r it a y ve ß n a E nk a , nk E , x s et e e t r t - le_ M A ilt o co rd ck a s, n ß d i C rk o b ' ecks, and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster -Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank. Devonport--Hodge and Co Dorchester Old ]Tank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-R. and H. Williams Fast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Ridino. Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford-Sparrow ' Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far ringdon-Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford--- Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Veasey and Co. Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin - Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Ross - Morgan and Co .......... Ipswichlpswich En aft Bank, dkie: ag ßank anhnd dB , a I n pks Needham,wi c- B c ....... : ...... ' 17 8' 6 98 10 5 WoodbridgeMarket Manningtree Ba n ß k , a a n n k id , pB S mw u t O h . Suffolk, Ke A n i t e is x h an ß de a r n s kr ivf d aidsto m " . e .. r . c . e . r .. , .. 56, 40' ne- Randall, and Co. ...................... . . o. Kendal en i I n na tong danrvieaaslrebe BBso braa a oonn n urdko d g uhc Old g R i B o .a. a r ia. I s : .40 e . nani Kendal-Wakefield, and ae. R a nfi. pi k . do. k . w. d 8. ol n Old a 25 , 955 K d on and Co. ............................................... 35 804 Lane End Staffordshire Bank Lane End-C. Harvey and S on ... ~.... ........................... 4,854 Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co. Leeds Union B an k , Leeds- 9 W. Will Williams, a Brown and C o . Leicester Bank, L e i cester-T. 34,635 &T. T. Paget 26,235 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Whitfi.ld and Co 16,853 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison, and Co 79,506 Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and Co 19,473 Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-S. and G. F St. Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis-Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Jarvis and Co 10,326 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and Co. 36 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hunger-ford Bank, and Hung 'rford Bank, Marlborough-Tan ner and CO Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Williams and 50n............................................... Miners' Bank, Truro-Willyams and Co ...... Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny-Bailey and C 0...,..,,, 26,3. Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth-Bromage, Snead, and C 0...,,, 12,486 Newark Bank, Newark -Godfrey and Riddell 20,620 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford-Handley, PeacoCk, and Co 43,909 Newbury Bank, Newbury -Bunny & Slocock 15 316 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Ham mond, and Co 15,778 Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich-Harveys and Hudson 48,200 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich -Gur neys and Birkbecks Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth-Harris and Co. .. 16,98, New Sarum Bank, Sarum-Everett and Co 8,579 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham-Samuel Smith and Co. 26,849 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os vestry-Croton and, Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Parson, and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge-T. H. and S. Beaching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney--J, W Clinch and Sons Pease'e Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter. borough-D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest-j. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading-Simonds and C 0..... Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Ricinnond-Roper and Co. Rochdale Bank, Rochdale-Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter-Day and Nicholson 6,285 Royston Bank, Royston- Fordham and Son 11,103 Rugby Bank, Rugby-A. Butlin and Son 8,503 Rye hank, Rye -- R. C. Poinfret, &Co 10,03' Ros Old Bank, Heredfordshire, Rosa - Allaway and Macdougal Saffron Walden and Noah Essex Bank, Saf fron Walden-Gibsons and Co. at. 29,467 Salop Bank Sh rew sbury-Burt on , Ll oy d, and Co. Scarboraa4h Old Bank, Scarborough-W oo d- 10,628 all and Co 2 8,650 Shrewsb ury Old B an k an d Sh rews b ury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury- Rocke, Ey.. toils, and C 0....... .............................. Soutwell Bank, Southwell-Wylde and Co Southampton and Hampshire Bak Southa ton--4therley, Fell, and C0............ ., .... 8a........ Taunton Bank, Taunton-11, and R,dcpck 24,105 9,169 20,490 28,501 0,018 1,939 3,779 42,043 29.492 4,662 31,150 39,548 6,282 16,418 54,486 7,350 8,887 31,196 21,622 6,905 10,154 55, 603 64,784 7,150 41,216 47,683 41,532 5,069 25,3G3 0,534 1 . 0,184 5, 772 3,017 8,141 14,315 8r,425 7,7011 3,060 6,606 9,755 38,677 10,392 8, 1 6 3 6,931 22,888 25,020 5,676 2,450 3,70 i 31,925 10,63) CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY. (Front the Lancet ) Any ambitious metaphysician of aspiring genius de votel to the study of the doctrine of probabilities may find ample scope for original speculation in seeking to fairly apportion the amount of moral guilt atnong-t those directly or indirectly irnplicat,d in any great crime. It is essential to the well-doing of society that murderers should receive the punishment of death. Yet there can be little doubt that many a man who has hung for his crime would have been held comparatively guiltlets could the responsibility of the act have been apportioned cording to abstract principles of justice, and that Mac heath woold have had no o ccas i on to sing, " Its strange we have not better company Upon Tyburn tree." A trial of three days' duration Las just been concluded at Glasgow, which affords abundant material for much speculation. James Thomson, a journeyman tailor, ad ministered a dose of prussic acid toayoung woman named Agnes Montgomery, which rapidly caused her death. He escaped detection at the time, as it is probable many other criminals escape detection in Scotland, through the absence of ac: roner's inquest. Twelve days afterwards he again administered prussic acid to a man and his wife, having mixed it with some whiskey, of which he invited them to partake. They narrowly escaped death. Prus sia acid was detected in the spirit, and the body of the girl, subsequently exhumed, presented abund tat evidence of her desth being occasioned by this poison. For neither of these crime.' could any motive be assigned. The psis soner was condemned to die, and we believe the verdict was mostjust, though his perfect sanity seems more than quo'. tionable. For we confess to little of the fine-drawn ayma paths , which relieves the perpetrator of a deliberately planned murder from due punishment because he does not come up to a certain standard of insanity. When we see criminals so frequently feign madness, and hear counsel cross-examine witnesses with the sole object of proving it, we may well be more cautious in granting reprieves on the score of insanity. In reading the particulars of the above case it neces sarily becomes a matter of surprise how a poor tailor could obtain possession of such an amount of so poisonous a drug. On the trial the prisoner's shopmatem proved that a good deal of conversation took place about the time of Miss Smith's trial regarding the rapid effects of prussio acid, which they said was sometimes used for photogras pbic purposes. A carrier's boy proved that he took a note from the prisoner to Hart's, a druggist in Glasgow, from whom he got a phial. He could not read, but another boy read the note on the way, aid said it was for prussic, acid. The prisoner told the carrier's boy that he wanted the stuff to dye his hair, but if he was asked by the drugs gist he was to say it was wanted by a photographer. The druggist's shopman proved that prussic acid was supplied to the carrier's assistant on Sept. 12, and the latter said be gave it to the prisoner on the morning of the 13th, the day of Agnes Montgomery's death. It was proved that the carrier's boy get a second supply of prussic acid at Hart's on Sept. 24, the day before the second admi nistration of poison, We cannot better express our opinion of the man who sold the poison than by quoting the words of the judge in summing up the case. He said, " that he never knew of a more singular piece of carelessness in selling poison than that exhibited by Stirling, the chemist, Hart's as sistant. He got no satisfactory answer to his question as to who the acid was wanted for, and did not believe that it was intended to be put to the use alleged, and yet gave it without inquiry. He (the Lord Justice Clerk) would not retract what he had said the day before to Stirling himself, and would repeat, that the death of the girl oueht to lie on his mind for lite. But we must go further back than the chemist who supplied the deadly drug. When the Sale of Poisons Bill was shelved last session we thus wrote in these columns :—" If dearly -bought experience is to be taken as a guide, this delay of a bill restricting the sale of poisons may be accompanied by the death, either acci dental or intentional, of some whose lives the time)); passing of a judicious measure might have saved."— Med. HadAtrahnisot, billA ugbeuesnt 2012,81118p5a75.5ed, nh i n aa t rv o rea e t ff eo d e b c : t aa , nn t de h d e t mht the woman o n pm o o i w as no c n o w n it d lnu e l m dt , n h ee pd and retoaobs toy manner mlay o t a:nn have could aa been r neo i evo e nt d e alive, for no extreme vindictiveness was proved against the prisoner. There is a chain of moral inculpation sufficiently puzzling. Whether it will serve as a warning the e m i n e t m r o b d e u r s e t o i tP o B a o r f i a a mmeenats uwrheoenairceuPreparingpretvoenotpptohsee recurrence of such crimes remains yet to be seen. ountry MarketF. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c, in the port of London, from the following j Dec. 27 to Jan. '2, both inclusive. t . 2a Pi 4 ( 3 -- - Colchester ...... Bl 1 613 0' Harwi ch — —— 610 Leigh Maldon ________ 'I i g , 4 27 - - 960 20 - 60 , COLCHESTER— JAN. 2. A fair supply of wheat, and last week's prices were well maintained. Malting barley met a brisk sale, at is per qr. advance. - - Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 50s to 5 65; red, 46s to 525; barley, 36s to 44s ; oats, 23s to 303 ; beans. 1119.zagan, 36s to 383 ; middle and small, 38s to 44s ; peat' white, 445 to 46s ; grey, 40s to 445. KIRKCALDY —JAN. 1. Wheat. I Barley. @Vats. First sos Od 3is 01 25 s Beans. Od Os Od Second 6d I 28s Od 228 Oct , Os 01 Third 32s Od 22s Od I 19s Odl Or Od ABERDEEN —J AN. 1. This being the New Year's-day our market was thinly attended. Few transactions in grain took place, and the prices nominally as last week. Potato oats l9s 01 to 20s Od Common oats lBs Od to 18 s 6 d 1401bs p. bushel Bere 23s Od t o 25s Od i r Barley 23s 0(1 to 25s Oil j 531bs Wheat, red (sprin g ) 621 be 30a Od to 33 s Od 1 , white 2Bs Od t o 44s Od Oatmeal ' lss Od to 1 .. aOd per boll Flour 3Bs Od to 39s Od per sack . . PROV ISION MARKET. • Beef, per lb 5(l to 8(1 I Butter, p lb. s—dtol s Od Mutton, p er lb sd to 8d Eggs, p doz. Os 8d to O s 9,1 I Lamb, do., O s oil to O. 8d ' liens, p p a i r 3 5 Od to 3s 6d Veal, per lb ... 5d to Os 8' I Chickens,do. 2s Od to 2., 6tl Pork, perlb...os Od to Os Od Ducks, do. ls - 6d to 2., Od Salmon, per lb ........Os Od Ducklingsh2s Od to 2s 61 Grouse, per brace... Os to Os Turkeys, each Os Od to 0, 0(1 Tallow, p stone, Os to —s 01 Potatoes, pr pock, —d to 10i Rabbits, each......... 7d to Bd. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt....86s to 100 s Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen i RETAIL PRICES. —d to 12d Flour,l4lb..os 0(1 to 2s 2d I Barleyflour,l4lbs to ls &I Oatmeal .... .. Os Od to is 7d I „ dust, Beretneal —.Os Od to is (3(1 I , per lb 2d to 20 Peasemeal... Os Od to 23 4d I Sid ' s, Cheese, p er i mperial stone, 4s. 0,1. to 4s 6d 7d 4-Ib. 10af...6d. 12-Ib. 10af...3d. COAL MARE Prices of Coals per ton ai :ET.-JAN. 4. Bebside's Hartley 8 d l4 6 Longridge's Wst Hartley 14 6 Benton West Hartley 14 ti Buddlo W. Hartley l4 6 Howard's West Hartley Netherton l4 f Walker Primrose l3 0 Iforpeth West Hartley 1 14 4 0 0 Wylata North Percy Hartley _l4 3 Holywell l5 6 Hastiugs Hartley. l4 3 Chester Main , ,.16 0 the dome of the market Walleend, aro. d. Nixon's Duffryn. 21 0 itu.soil's Hetton .......... 19 6 Sraddyll Gibson l7 6 iSoutli Hutton 1t 0 Tees 2l 0 Cowpeu Hartley l4 6 Eden Main l9 6 Northumberl an d l5 9 Lyon's Stone Coal l9 0 He. gh t all 19 3 Ste , art s. 2l 0 Whitworth l5 6 Kelloe. .. . l9 9 Acorn Close .... l9 6 Haswell 2l 6 ,Framwollgat e t.,„ 19 )t, 67 ; sold, 57 Wallsend, &o. Iticldell e N a o s i s t o h p H .. .............4 yl . I 'l ..... 20 0, Ships at markei BIRTHS. BURIALL—On the 2d inst., at Dorchester-house, Park. lane, the wife of Robert Burrell, Esq., of a daughter. GORE —On the Ist inst., at Woodbury Lodge, Cambridge shire, the wife of Harry H. Gore, Esq. LLOYD—On the 2d inst„ at 8, Harewood-square, the wif e Horace Ll o yd, E sq., b arrister-at-taw, of a daughter. WILLER—On the 4th inst., at 8, liing's-road, Bedford row, the wife of George Weller, E N., son. solicitor, of a MARRIAGES. D'AGuiLAn —DAwsoN—On the 4th inst, , at St. George' s , Hanover- square, Li eu t . -C olonel Henry Torrens D'Agui lar, late Grenadier Guards, and eldest son of the late Sir George D'Aguilar, K. c.ja third dau g ht er of the Lady Elilabeth Dawson and of to Fra n ces Catherine, the late Hon. Li onel Dawson. ELLIOT— MORTON — On the 2cl inst., at St. George' s , Han over-square, Win. B. El l i ot, Esq., the eldest son of the Hon. lo John E. Elliot M.P. ' to Mary Geraldi ne, w id ow of the te T. C. Morton, Esq. EATH HAOKBLOCKT—On the 2d inst., at the resid ence o f hi s bro. On Warren, Betchwoith, Surrey, William Hickblock, E N M.P. for the Borough of Rei ga t e , aged 53. PoTi LE---On the 2d inst., at Trafalgar-terrace Kingsland, of bii , richitis, Mr. J o hn P o ttl e , o f the Roy al Exchange, aged 77. S T v? jc E VE b, NS Alfred O B On t i Stevens,2dst. late at3 o f the A ,D evonsh il i i r a e n - c r e oa ln , s G ur r a e n e e n e . Office, aged 47. WILLAN—On the Ist inst., at Gainsborough, the Rev. J. Henry Willan, Master of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, and vicar of Bole, aced 49. LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No, 112, Strand, Printer, at Tlur Sun Offioe, Nt. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the comfy of Middlesex, Tuesday, J anuary,s. 1888. CHELMSFORD —JAN. 1 . There was a fair supply o f wheat at our market to-day. Best wheats realised 2s and inferior is more Mel 0 3 ;best barleys also is dearer. All other kinds firal., at f ormer rates, except n beans, ewq..r.i. which 5555 were vo ea l ast s s: c php seaarrptgrerird.,.g.a.en...d.. ............................... Wheat, white, old, per a. 8. red, old 43 LO White..•. ........ 39 42 now 43 49 Boiling ......... 39 44 Barloy 3l 40 Dun ............. :8 40 Chevalier........ 35 41 i Beans, Ti ik . 36 38 Grinding . 3O 33 I Harrow ticks 36 40 trait 7O 73 I Ma.zagan 33 36 Chevalier .......... 72 73 1 Ditto, new 33 35 , reoaiild )118, front 18,749 2,229 35,418 22,604 5,652 10,737 5,303 5,153 11,433 24,372 13, 300 6,639 ~'