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THIS DAY.--Morning, 11h. 28m.—Afternoon, 11h. 58m. To-Monuow.-Morning, h. m.—Afternoon, 12h. 25m. f I 4 10 4 4.. . Agir vailassotiF4's liato LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1865. Last night both Houses of Parliament were in formed that the Lord Chancellor had tendered his resignation. Although this was only what was to be e:pected in consequence of the adverse decision of the night before, h still forms an appropriate finish to the affair, and accords with the idea of retributive justice. It would, have been indeed greatly to be regretted had the session terminated without something decisive being done in this matter. For once party manoeuvres have failed, and the wiles of dexterous officials have not been able to serve their purpose. It is to be trusted that a lesson has thus been taught which will not be soon forgotten, and an example furnished that may long serve our public and official men. Throughout the whose course of these inquiries and investigations it is a remarkable thing that there has been no real defence made for the Chancellor, and even among those who were the most likely to favour him, we only met with faint denials and timid asseverations. It is .true that last week when the subject was under diScussion, Lord PALMEr:STON attempted the wretched clap-trap of saying that the Lord Chan cellor deserved justice as much as any one else, as if every feasible allowance had not been made for him, and as if every point in his favour had not been strained to the uttermost. Lord PALMERSTON, doubtless with the best inten tions, -evidently committed a great mistake in refus ing to accept the resignation which Lord WESTBURY had previously tendered upon more than one occasion. He has rendered him no service whatever in so do ing, aud has indeed been the cause of calling down the censure of the House upon him. The inquiries could have been made just as well after the resigna tion as before, and as every one acquainted with the circumstances know that the statements were correct upon which the charges were founded were facts beyond dispute it was very idle to quibble at forms and grasp at shadows in the discussion of the mat ter. There was quite enough said in the report of the Lords' committee for Lord WESTBCRY to have relin quished his post; and indeed the tenure of it could not have been at all agreeable after the animadiersions that lAd been made, and the reports which had been set afloat. The Ministers themselves must now re cognise the folly of their proceedings. There can be no doubt that the censure passed upon the Lord Chancellor the other night, far from being unde served, was only too tame in its language, and too lenient in its tone. A natural instinct seems to pre vent men from using any very extravagant terms when it comes to the point of passing judgment upon men in high places. Therefore, it may fairly be computed that more was implied than said in the resolution to which the House agreed to pass the other night. Considering the circumstances, Mr. BOUVERIE could not have done better, and he deserves great credit for his skill and courage. Mr. Hem paved the way by his earnestness and eloquence, and in his speech he made several most appropriate re marks. In the last part of his speech more espe cially there occurs a most striking illustration of the harm done by the course pursued by the Lord Chancellor and his coadjutors. The House, he said, will soon be dissolved, and at every hustings and place of election in the country the re turning officer, in obedience to an Act which has been passed, will proclaim the pains and penal ties that will accrue to any elector who is engaged in " corrupt proceedings." " And I ask," con tinued the hon. member, " when that is read to the electors, will they not ask themselves, is the Legis lature of this country sincere and earnest? Is it only the corruption of £lO householders, freemen, and liverymen that they are so anxious to punish, or will they punish corruption pervading the func tionaries of the highest court of the kingdom, and not checked by the highest judge of the land ?" These are considerations well worthy of reflection, and should sink deeply into the minds of those who are ready and prone to find excuses for those in high positions and influential offices. The House of Commons has nobly discharged its duty and faithfully fulfilled the trust reposed in it by the country. Now that the Lord Chancellor has fallen into dis grace many unpleasant truths will doubtless come out, and much be revealed which otherwise would have been discreetly hidden. It does not follow, however, that this opprobrium will only be the usual lot of the fallen. It is notorious that no man in so influential a posi tion was ever more unpopular than Lord WEST BURY, and few have equalled him in this unpleasant degree. In the Ilouse of Lords he was most intem perate if interfered with, and on one notable occasion in particular lost his temper in a manner quite un fitting his position, and it was the more unpardon able that he should do so, because the subject dis cussed was the injury sustained by several clerks and other officials in consequence of charges abruptly in troduced and not considered in their consequences. In the exercise of his judicial functions Lord WESTBURY was hard and harsh, never taking time to understand a case, but priding himself in judging the rights of an affair at once. He also was most remarkable for reserving the decisions of the judges under him, and more especially those of the Master of the Rolls. In pursuing these favourite crotchets he was guilty of conduct .totally unbecoming the course requisite in one of his high position, and the wrong and injustice thus occasioned to many it is impossible to over-estimate or exaggerate. Much may be done with impunity by one so powerful and so learned, and therefore it becomes them the more to be circumspect in their ways and cautious in their dealings. We say it with regret that Lord WESTBURY does not retire from his lofty position and resign his high office with his character or reputation the same as when he entered upon his duties. Corrupt and un worthy motives have been imputed to him, but from these he has been acquitted both Houses of Parliament and public opinion in general. There still remain, however, lesser things in accusation, and from these he has not been able to extricate himself with anything like success. He has been unfortunate enough to call down upon himself a direct censure from the House of Commons, and resigns, not because it is expedient or advisable, but because it is imperatively necessary for him to do so. No special pleading, and no plausible excuses can avail to ward off such an attack as this, and it remains un fait accompli, recognised in its weight by the present generation, hereafter to be studied in the irrevocable pages of " Hansard." Let not this opportunity be thrown away, and let not all those most painful proceedings have taken place in vain. We can not expect to see an abler lawyer or a cleverer man in his profession than Lord WESTBURY, but we have a right to expect a more upright judge, a more considerate holder of a powerful position, and a more scrupulous dispenser of extensive patronage than the man who has just been declared by the Com mons of England as unworthy of filling the great office of the Lord High Chancellor. Even among the many exciting topics which just now are engaging the attention of Englishmen, the memorable anniversary of yesterday could not pass altogether unnoticed. Nearly ninety years have rolled away with their eventful catalogue, and seldom, perhaps, have ninety years played so con spicuous a part in history since the promulgation of that Declaration of Independence to which all I Americans look back as the foundation of their national greatness. The wildest dreams, the most sanguine ambition of the leaders of the War of Independence have been more than realised. Washington, indeed foresaw the weakness that lurked in the carefully framed Constitution, but with all his prescience he could scarcely have foretold the rapidity with which the young nation should de ' velope itself, or the height to which the ability, the energy, and the freedom of its people should raise it. Americans may well feel proud of their his tory, when they look back to the anxious crisis of 89 years since. The gifts of Nature have, indeed, been lavished upon them. The immense extent of their terrritories, the fertility of their soil, their isolation from the old world, have all been acces sories to their success, but the vigour and independence which they drew from their Saxon fathers have been even more powerful auxiliaries. In the development of education and intelligence, in the diffusion of the great principles of freedom and toleration, the American people have done good service to the world at large. Their very faults and excesses, springing from that extravagance of liberty which always rebounds into dogmatism, have been in a manner useful as counterbalancing the opposite errors of our older and more cautious civilisation. The roughness and frankness of their language, the hardihood and even recklessness of their daring, have contrasted well with the smooth but deceitful courtesies, the timorous prudence of older statesmen and diplomatists. If these qualities have sometimes been carried to excess, it was but the natural ten dency of such uncontrolled social and political liberty, and the well-wishers of the young republic, while regretting some features of its history and its constitution,, might well hope that age and expe rience would modify all that was amiss, would supply all that was wanting. In survey of the achievements of the past, omitting the past few years, the celebration of American Independence might well be excused for their exultation and their enthusiasm. Unhappily, the thread of the story is broken, the celebration is kept by the representatives of one party alone, and the day which to one part of the country is a day of triumph and rejoicing is to another only a source of mortification and grief. The bright picture of American life and prospects had unfortunately its reverse side, and the elements of discord were too strong for a rupture to be avoided ' • the influence of pers ona l i n t erest, o f faction, of prejudice, of local jealousy, of private intrigue and rivalry - have prevailed over wiser counsels, and amid havoc, desolation, and ruin, amid ravaged homes and trampled cornfields, and threats of famine and national bankruptcy, the 89th anniversary of the Declaration of Indepen dence is kept in the remains of its native republic. It is true that enthusiasts may see in the present condition of affairs the elements of a more enduring greatness. The insidious evil of slavery is at an end, and the antagonistic parties have tried their strength in the greatest civil war of modern times, so that two prolific sources of discontent and disunion have been apparently disposed of. But the ends gained have been gained by means that have defeated themselves. The abolition of slavery, as a military measure, carried out with cruel haste and carelessness, has proved most dan gerous to the negroes themselves, and their freedom is likely to bring them little but disease and misery. Whether accustomed to bear the burden of injus tice they will remain passive under their sufferings, and melt away from the scene, or whether they will combine in a form dangerous to the peace of society, remains to be seen. There is one thing very certain : the war said in some quarters to be undertaken on behalf of the blacks has left an in creased bitterness of feeling between black and white in the North. But in celebrating the restora tiol3 of the Union, in conjunction the miniver- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1E65 sary of National Independence, the Americans of the Northern States make a great mistake. They have, in fact, no more right to take part in such rejoicing than would King GEORGE or Lord NORTH if they were alive now. The triumphant conclusion of the war on which theypride themselves is the death-blow to the principle so resolutely maintained by WASH INGTON and his fellows—the right of a nation to choose its own form of government to legislate for its own. If a Confederation of States, any one of which is the size of a European kingdom, if a popu lation numbered by millions, have not the right to rule themselves, where is the line to be drawn ? The South has shown itself capable of internal Government, it has levied large armies, it has main tahed a war of gigantic proportions totally unsup ported, and yet it has not right to rule itself. It must therefore be taxed for the benefit of the North—the Northern people must have the profit of its produce—their ports must be its principal channels of commerce, and their trades men its active agents and managers. Its vast tracts are to be treated as the land of a conquered foe, while its people are to be regarded and punished as traitors and felons. Its chief magistrate is threatened with the death of an assassin and a criminal, and its leaders are expiating in prison, or in exile, the crime of endeavouring to repeat in 1861-65 the experiment of 1776. Instead of a day of rejoicing and of confidence, of waving banners and exulting toasts, yesterday might well have been a time of anxious reflection and anticipation for all true-hearted Americans. Under the guise of national greatness they have admitted the old despotic theories of time-worn tyrannies. The Union has become to Americans what the Throne is in some continental states. They forget that the Union without Inde pendence is useless and weak ; it was its re cognition of the rights of peoples which gave it its strength. The elements of weakness and discord are inherent in the present condition of the .11e public ; its size is too vast, too unwieldy, to be kept together under a single head when the will of the people is wanting to support it, and the real well-wishers of American unity and indepen dence regard the abrupt conclusion of the war and the complete subjugation of the Southern States with an anxiety and apprehension which no elo quence can silence, no logic disprove. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. BOURSE, July 4.—Considerable firmness has pre vailed since the opening of business to-day, and the various departments have exhibited an almost ex ceptional firmness. Italian Five per Cents. have improved 25c., the present quotation being 67f. 15c., and Mexican Loan (Old) has advanced to 46. French Threes, for Account, have maintained yes terday's augmentation, and remain firm at 67f. sc. The transactions in Railway Shares have also been of a most satisfactory character. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per Cents 95 85 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 67 05 Do. end month 67 051 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 1565 Credit Fonder 1270 Italian Loan 67 15 Do. end month 67 30 RAIL Ditto Threes 67 50 New Mexican Do. Bonds 302 50 Russian 9O 25 Austrian Spanish Threes 45 25 Home Debt Deferred Roman 74 rAYB. Cash. Acct. .827 50 ... 826 25 Orleans Northern 1063 75 :: : 16 . 6 - 6 - 25 Lyons and Mediterranean. 837 50 ... 838 75 Southern 575 ... 577 50 Western 530 ... Eastern 513 75 ... 515 Sardinian , 303 75 . Austrian Lombard 483 75 ... 486 25 North of Spain Saragossa 3lO ... 316 25 Ditto to Barcelona - •.• --- THE TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD. SECOND DAY. EnEs-nuuon, Tuesday, July 4. This morning, at 10 o'clock, the trial- of Dr. Pritchard was resumed in the High Court of Justi ciary, which was extremely crowded throughout the day. The prisoner was calm and 'collected, though looking a little less at ease than on the previous day, perhaps from the fatigue of long sitting in the warm court. His brother again sat in the dock with him all day. Mary Paterson, a cook, who entered the service of Dr. Pritchard on the 16th of February last, was the first witness. She stated, the inmates of the house were Dr. and Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Taylor, four children, two student boarders, Mary M'Leod, and a washerwoman. Witness did not see Mrs. Pritchard that day, but Mrs. Taylor spoke to wit ness about her, and said she did not understand her trouble, for she was sick and vomiting frequently and got no sleep. Mrs. Taylor mentioned Mrs. Pritchard's sickness several times, and witness saw indications of it on her clothing and on the bed clothes. Witness first saw Mrs. Pritchard on the Friday -evening before her mother's death, for, as Mrs. Taylor was ill, witness waited on Mrs. Pritchard and answered her bell. Witness went into the room shortly afterwards, and found Mrs. Taylor dead. That was the first time she saw Mrs. Pritchard. Witness last saw Mrs. Taylor alive about seven o'clock that evening, when she was rather peevish. Witness's duties were chiefly down stairs, and she was told not to go up stairs so as to avoid disturbing Mrs. Pritchard while she slept. After Mrs. Taylor's death, witness prepared the spare bedroom, and Dr. and Mrs. Pritchard walked down to it. An old woman was sent for to attend to the body, which was dressed. Witness assisted to undress it, and found in the pocket of the dress a bottle, a key, a purse, and some letters. The bottle was about half full of a brown colour, and the label was to the effect that two drops were equal to three of laudanum. Witness pointed out the bottle sub sequently to Dr. Penny ; but at the time witness put the bottle under the drawers. There was a pink colour all down the left side of the body. When the prisoner and his wife were in the room before Dr. Patterson came, Mrs. Pritchard said, " Ed ward, can you do nothing for her ?" He said, " I can do nothing for a dead woman ; can I recall life ?" The prisoner afterwards said that Dr. Patter son had said Mrs. Taylor was paralysed on her left side. After the body of Mrs. Taylor was dressed Dr. Pritchard came and asked for the bottle that was found in Mrs. Taylor's pocket. He said to witness when he saw the bottle " Good heavens ! has she taken so much since Tuesday ?" and charged witness to say nothing about it, as it would not do for a man in his position to be spoken of. After that witness waited on Mrs. Pritchard with her food perhaps three times. Witness saw her every day in the drawing-room, until the last three days of her life. Mrs. Pritchard gave witness orders about dinner, and about the house. One evenimg before Mrs. Taylor's death the prisoner gave wit ness a woodcock, which she cooked for Mrs. Prit chard's supper. A bell rang on the forenoon of the day of Mrs. Pritchard's death. When it rang the third time witness went to the consulting room door to see if it was the doctor's bell. The door was partly open, but witness could not open it, although she pressed against it. Witness then went to go to the bedroom, and the prisoner came from the con sulting room and asked how Mrs. Pritchard was. She said she did not know, and went on. The prisoner followed and Mary M'Leod came on also. Witness did not know where Mary had been, or where she came from. She had not been in the kitchen. On reaching the room Mrs. Pritchard asked witness to empty a vessel, and witness left the room with it. Mary M'Leod followed witness to the kitchen for some hot water for mistress's feet. Witness asked Mary why she had not answered the bell. (Objec tion was taken to the conversation being detailed, and it was not pressed.) Witness took Mrs. Prit chard a dinner of curry on the Bth of March. She said she enjoyed it very much, and she was not sick after it. She" said she felt much better that day ; indeed, she was almost well, ex cept when she was sick and vomiting. A day or two before Mrs. Pritchard died witness found a small piece of cheese in a plate in the pantry, and took off a little bit and ate it, when she found it had a bitter taste. Shortly after tasting the cheese she felt a burning sensation in her throat, which was followed by sickness and vomiting and pain in the stomach and bowels. She also felt pain in her stomach and bowels, and asked for a glass of spirits, which Mary M'Leod gave her, and she took it when she went to bed between nine and ten o'clock that morning. Witness got up again about noon. The next even ing (Wednesday) the prisoner spoke to witness and asked her to make some egg-flip for her mistress. He gave her an egg unbroken, and told her to beat it up very smooth, which witness did in the pantry. The prisoner came into the pantry once or twice, and said it looked smooth and he would go for some sugar. He went into the dining-room, then into the consulting-room, and returned to the pantry and dropped some lump sugar into the tumbler of egg. He had to come out of the dining-room into the lobby to go into the consulting-room. The pri soner told witness to pour some hot water into it, and he said he would add the whisky up stairs. Then he said Mrs. Pritchard was not ready for it, and Mary M'Leod would fetch it when it was wanted. So witness left it on the pantry table. About a quarter of an hour later Mary M'Leod c ame for it, fetched it from the pantry, and witness poured the water upon the beaten egg. Mary asked witness to taste it, and she took about a teanspoonful. It had a bitter taste, made witness sick, and produced precisely the same effects as the cheese. Mary M'Leod was upstairs that night until 4 o'clock, and when she came down witness said she had felt so ill she thought she should never v.e the face of any person alive again. Witness was unwell the whole day afterwards, but did not vomit again. She saw Mrs. Pritchard next above 12 o'clock on Friday, the day before she died. The bell rang three times, and after the third ringing witness went to her room. Witness spoke to her about some chemises for her youngest child. The prisoner was standing beside the bed, and Mrs. Pritchard was drinking something from a glass, which she emptied, She gave witness directions about the chemises. About 5 o'clock that evening Mrs. Pritchard's bell rang violently. Mary M'Leod answered it, and called witness over the stairs. Witness went up, and found Mrs. Pritchard getting into bed, with the help of M'Leod. Mrs. Pritchard was in a state of excitement, and said something about her mother. Witness assisted to lay the bedclothes over her, and she said , " Never mind me, attend to my mother." Witness began rubbing her hands, which were cold, and Mrs. Pritchard told her to rub them both together. She then became more composed, and said, " I knew nothing of this until the boys came in to dress." There had been no boys in the room. Her youngest child came in, and the prisoner followed, when wit ness left, and prepared for supper the chicken left at dinner. Subsequently the prisoner came out of the consulting-room and asked if witness had taken Mrs. Pritchard's supper. Witness had it in her hand ; the prisoner said he would take it, and he did so. That was between 10 and 11 o'clock. Wit ness heard nothing more until about half-past one o'clock next morning, when Mary M'Leod awoke her and told her to make a mustard poultice. Mary took it up. Soon afterwards the bell rang, and witness went up. The prisoner and Mrs. Pritchard were in bed, and Mary M'Leod was also in the room. Witness felt Mrs. Pritchard and found she was cold and dead. The prisoner told her to lift up the dress and apply the poultice which was lying near her. Witness refused to do sa, saying it was no use to do it to a dead person. The prisoner said, "Is she dead, Patterson ?" Witness said, " You ought to know best, doctor." He said she had only fainted, and he told Mary M'Leod to fetch some hot water. Witness said that would be of no use to a dead body. The prisoner said, " Come back, come back to your dear Edward." He also said " What a brute, what a heathen ! So gentle, so mild," and he told witness to fetch a rifle and shoot him. Mr. King had a rifle in the house. Witness said, " Doctor don't use such expressions. If God were to shut your mouth and mine I don't know how we should be prepared to stand before a righteous God." He said, " True Patterson, you are the wisest and kindest woman I ever saw." Witness asked him to leave the room that she might dress the body, and he did so. During the night before Mrs. Pritchard's death the prisoner came downstairs for some coal, and he then said Dr. Patterson had told him that Mrs. Pritchard had taken too much wine. When witness went downstairs to tell the prisoner that she had dressed the body he told her that she had written letters to his mother and to a friend of Mrs. Pritchard's, and went out to post them. On his return he called witness up stairs and said (speaking as witness understood to his wife), " She walked down the street with me, and talked with me about the boys ; and she kissed me on the cheek when she went away." Subsequently the prisoner asked wit ness for his wife's ring, which she gave him. Witness took the sheets, pillow cases, and bolsters from Mrs. Pritchard's bed, and her clothes, and put them in the dirty clothes press. There were yellow stains upon the bed clothes. They were subsequently given to the police. On Saturday, the Ist of April, witness found a paper bag in the kitchen press which contained tapioca. It had not been meddled with while witness was in the house. The door of the consulting-room was never locked. One of the presses of that room witness never saw open. The other was opened sometimes, and from it the prisoner used to give witness the eggs. While witness was in the house Mrs. Pritchard was never lower than the drawing-room floor. When the bottle from Mrs. Taylor's pocket was given to the prisoner, in addition to the remark al ready stated, the prisoner said, raising his eyes to heaven, " If she had told me, and I had known what she was taking, instead of sending a girl like that for it." He referred to Mary. Cross-examined--After she had taken the cheese witness did not tell the prisoner that she had been ill. Witness asked the prisoner the morning after making the egg flip how Mrs. Pritchard was, and he said she had been very ill through the night. Wit ness replied that she had also been vomiting during the night. Re-examined—When witness told the prisoner of her sickness he said it would be a bad job if she was laid up also. He did not give her anything. Wit ness saw nothing of the egg flip after it was taken to Mrs. Pritchard's room, nor did she see the glass to know it again. By the Court—When looking through the win dow of the consulting-room, the press that witness never saw opened was on the left. The bottle from Mrs. Taylor's pocket was taken by the prisoner on the evening of her death. Witness did not see it again until the Monday when the body was taken to Edinburgh. It was then under the drawers in the bedroom, where witness had first placed it. There was still some liquid in it. Witness next saw it in the hands of the police, after the prisoner's apprehension. The bottle produced was of the same size to general appearance. This concluded the evidence of Mary Paterson, who then retired at half-past twelve, having been examined two hours and a quarter. At this stage also one of the jury men became sick, probably owing to the great heat of the court, and had to be assisted out of court. After an ab sence of ten minutes ho was able to return to take his place with the other jurymen. Mary M'Leod was recalled and examined by the Soli citor-General—Were you in Dr. Pritchard's house after his wife's body was taken to Edinburgh ?—Yes. On the Tuesday the police were in the house ?—Yes. You saw Superintendent M'Call there ?—Yes. I gave a bottle to him. That is the bottle which is now shown me, at least it is very like it. The label is something like the label. There was a dark coloured liquid in the bottle. That is also like the bottle I saw after Mrs. Taylor's body was dressed. I found it in a drawer in a chest of drawers which was in the room where Mrs. Taylor died, and also where Mrs. Pritchard died. The chest of drawers had, however, been shifted when Superintendent M'Call came to the house. I gave the bottle to him. There was no other bottle in the house like it that I know. By the Lord Justice-Clerk—How came you to look for the bottle ? Did anybody ask for it . 2—Yes. Superinten dent M'Call did. •By the Solicitor-General—What bottle did he ask for ? —He asked for the bottle which had been found in Mrs. Taylor's pocket. Jessie Bryden, or Nabb, examined by Mr. Crichton— You go out as washerwoman sometimes?—Yes. You were sometimes employed in the family of Dr. Pritchard ?—Yes. I remember the night Mrs. Taylor died. It was between twelve and one o'clock in the morning. I was present to assist in dressing the body of Mrs. Taylor. Mary Pater son assisted me. I found a bottle in the pocket of Mrs. Taylor. The bottle now shown me is the bottle. I read the label, and it is the same which 1 now see. There was a brownish coloured liquid in the bottle, rather thick. The bottle was three parts full. The liquid did not come up to the label. Dr. Pritchard took it down stairs with him. Mary Paterson put it in the drawers, or rather under the drawers. I saw the doctor after that. He came into the room, and was told that it had been found in the pocket of the deceased Mrs. Taylor. He asked Mary Paterson to give it to him, and she did so. He then said, " Good hea vens ! has she taken all that since Monday ?" He said she ought not to have sent a girl like that to buy it for her, but that she ought to have asked him. He added that she had been in the habit of taking it for years. Ho also said that Mrs. Taylor had been in dulging in liquor for a few days, and had taken an overdose of this opium stuff. He told us we were to say nothing about it, for it might lead to a little trouble. This ho said the night after her death. Did he speak to you again about this bottle ?—Yes ; next morning in the consulting-room. No one was there but myself. He said he had no doubt it was poison, and she had taken too much of it. He did not say anything more than that. Do you remember seeing Mrs. Pritchard one day in January when you were at the house 2—Yes, sir ; but I !cannot remember the exact day. I had been carry ing up coals to the bed-room. Before I went into the room I heard Mrs. Pritchard retching very much indeed. I waited a little, and she rang tho bell. When she rang the bell I went in. I found her lean ing over the basin stand. This was about seven o'clock in the evening. She asked mo to give her a drink of cold water. She had been down stairs in the drawingroom to tea a little before that, and it was shortly after tea that I found her so sick. She also asked on that occasion in the bedroom that I would put her to bed, and bring her a bottle of water for her feet. I assisted her into bed. She said she did not know when her sickness would cease. That was all she said. Do you remember seeing Mrs. Taylor the week before she died ? She did not get the whole of the hot water first ?—No. I saw Mrs. Taylor the week before she died. It was on the Wednesday night. She said something to me about Mrs. Pritchard's illness then. She said she could not understand Mrs. Pritchard's illness. She was very ill that day. She had been sick and vomiting, she said, but said nothing about cramp. I was washing in Dr. Pritchard's house after Mrs. Taylor's death on the 9th of March. I was in Mrs. Pritchard's bedroom that night. Some soiled bedclothes were taken off the bed by me. They appeared as if they had been soiled by vomited mat ter. She said to me that she had been sick, but was not aware of it till the morning. The Lord Justice Olerk—Sho vomited in her sleep, then 7—Yes. CricbtQA—ltm Pritchard very seldom spole to me about her sickness. I saw her seldom. She spoke to me about her state of health in Edinburgh. She said that when she was in Edinburgh she was very well, and that she felt much better. I pointed out to Dr. Penny the liquid in the bottle when I saw it in court. Cross-examined by Mr. Clark—You have told us about the conversation between Dr. Pritchard when Mrs. Pater son and you were dressing Mrs. Pritchard'sbody—you have told us all that passed. What I want to know is whether Mary Paterson was present during the whole time of the conversation ?—Yes. Nobody else was present ?—Mary M'Leod was not there. The Lord Justice Clerk—When you showed Dr. Penny what was in the bottle, was there anything in the bottle then?—No. Thomas Alexander Connell, student, examined by the Solicitor-General—I am a student of medicine, and boarded with the prisoner from November, 1863, till a re cent date—the death of Mrs. Pritchard. I was in Dr. Pritchard's house when his wife went to Edinburgh in November. I spent the Christmas and New Year's holi days with my father. When I returned I found that Mrs. Pritchard had come back from Edinburgh. I was aware she had been ailing before she went to Edinburgh. On my return—the beginning of January—l observed she became unwell again, although she did not complain of anything particular at the time. I remember of her com plaining in the doctor's presence of being unwell. I should say that would be about the third week of January. We were all in the dining-room at the time. It was in the evening, after tea. She said she felt un well, and would go to bed. She did not mention how she felt unwell. It appeared to me to be a sudden attack of illness. She left the room at the time. After that I don't remember her coming down to her breakfast or other meals. I did not see her again til after her mother's death, and when I was in the way of seeing her, I don't remember of hearing her complaining of sickness. This was the only occasion that I remember she complained of illness in my presence. It was soon after her mother's death that I saw her again—a week thereafter. After the occasion when the first complaint of illness was made in my presence, a week after Mrs. Taylor's death, I generally asked the doctor every morning how she was. At first he sometimes said she was better and sometimes he said worse. He did not tell me at that time what was the matter with her. Afterwards he told me ho thought it was gastric typhoid. The Lord Justice-Clerk—When did he say that ?—lt would be after her mother's death. By the Solicitor-General—Before that he did not give any name to her illness at all. He mentioned one of the symptoms as sickness, which ho said came on whenever she had eaten anything. Did he mention this more than once ?—I think more than once. Have you any doubt of his telling you frequently ?—I have no doubt. Did he mention any other symptom of her illness ? Cramp. Did he tell you when and where she was attacked gene rally with cramp ?—No. Did he tell you it was in the night or during the day ? —I heard so from Mrs. Taylor. The Lord Justice-Clerk—l thought you heard about the cramp from the prisoner ?—No, it was from Mrs. Taylor. By the Solicitor-General—The only symptom of illness that the doctor mentioned was sickness. Will you tell us as distinctly as you can what Mrs Taylor said to you about Mrs. Pritchard's illness ?—She said she was sick every time she tasted food, and that she had the cramp in her arms and hands. She said the cramp generally came on at night. Did Mrs. Taylor ever speak to you about being sick herself ?—Once she did. She said she was sick after par taking of some tapioca that had been prepared for Mrs. Pritchard. Tell us what she said about that ?—She said it had been prepared for Mrs. Pritchard, and that it had been taken up to her room. Mrs. Pritchard refused to take it, and Mrs. Taylor took it herself. About an hour and a half after she took it she was seized with sickness and vomiting. Did she tell you how long the sickness and vomiting continued ?—About an hour I think she said. Did she say anything else ?—She said she was glad Mrs. Pritchard had not taken it, as it might have proved fatal in her delicate state. She said she would send the tapioca back. That was all she said. I believe she said some thing to the effect that her attack was something like what Mrs. Pritchard had. This was shortly after she came to Glasgow. I am aware Mrs. Taylor died at an early hour on the Saturday morning. I had seen her on the Fri- day. There did not appear to be anything particular the matter with her on the Friday. She seemed to be a strong, healthy old lady. I noticed no difference upon her on the Friday. She left the dining-room as usual after tea upon this Friday evening. I next heard of her about half-past 9, when Dr. Pritchard came to me in the dining-room and told me that she had been taken suddenlyill, and he desired me to go for Dr. Paterson. I asked what he thought was the matter with her, and he said he thought it was apo plexy. I went for Dr. Paterson, and he came about 10 o'clock. I was not present when he came, but I saw Dr. Pritchard shortly after he left. I asked him if Mrs. Taylor was any better, and he said she was not. I asked him if it was apoplexy, and he said it was. The next time I heard of Mrs. Taylor was next morn ing, when the doctor came into my bed-room very early, and awoke me by saying that Mrs. Taylor was dead. He said something I did not catch, as I was not awake ; but he said she had died about half-past twelve, He said she had died very calmly. In the morning he said he was unconscious when she died. Did he say anything about her having returned to con sciousness before she died ?—Yes ; he said that she had recovered consciousness a minute or two before she died. I left the house and went to my father's the next day. When I returned in about a week, on Monday the 6th of March, I saw Mrs. Pritchard. I asked her how she felt, and she said she was pretty well. The doctor was pre sent at the time. She seemed as if she was getting better. I thought she was looking better, or convalescent, at least. Had she the appearance of one who had undergone severe suffering ?—Yes ; I would have judged from her face that she had undergone considerable pain. Did you see any more of hor before her death ?—:-Yes ; I saw her about a week before she died. She was in the same place. She then seemed much about the same. She did not tell me anything of herself. The doctor was not present on this latter occasion, but she sent me for him. She did not tell me why she wanted him. I did not see any more of her, but I asked the doctor about her after this. I did not ask him for her specially on any particular day, but I was in the habit of inquiring how she was every morning generally. The doctor said she was getting bettor, or coming round. The Lord Justice- Clerk—How long did he give you this answer to your questions as to Mrs. Pritchard's health ? He did so until the day of her death. lie complained of being worn out with watching her. He said ho was very much worse by sitting up at nights with her. He said this in course of the week in which her death occurred. He did not say anything more about her that I recollect at that time, but on the night on which she died I remarked that he must be much worn out by being up at night so often watching. He replied that he was, but she had often, he said, done the same thing for him when he was ill. I understood him, in saying this, to express how little he grudged the fatigue. I was told on the morning after Mrs. Pritchard's death that Dr. Paterson had been called the previous evening. On the Saturday night before her death the prisoner gave me a doctor's prescrip tion in his own handwriting, and aged me to go and get the medicines marked on it " For Mrs. Pritchard." He told me to go to the Glasgow Medical Hall, or the Apothe caries' Hall, I think in Elmbank-street, off Sauchiehall street. I took tho line to the shop and got the medicines made up. I got two vials filled with some liquid prepara tion. I gave this to the prisoner. I did not read the pre scription. This was about nine o'clock in the even ing. I am shown a prescription in Dr. Pritchard's handwriting, but not having looked at the one he gave me on the occasion I speak of I cannot identify it. I brought back the prescription with me along with the vials which I got. lam shown these (labelled No. 19). The vial I now see is about the size of the one I got for the prescription, and what it contains is of the same colour as the stuff I got from the apothecary's shop. I was told of Mrs. Pritchard's death the following morning by Mary M'Leod. Were you frequently in the prisoner's consulting-room ? —Not lately—that is not shortly before Mr. Pritchard's death—but I used to be there pretty frequently before the last six months. I went into the consulting-room when I wanted a book out of the library. There were a few medi cines kept in the consulting-room —some tinctures, and so forth. They were kept in the cupboard on the right hand side as you enter, on the side of the window and not in the cupboard opposite the fireplace. Were any of those tinctures or other medicines kept else where than in the cupboard ?—No ; not that I know of. Was the doctor in the habit of making up medicines to his patients ?—Not to my knowledge. I am not able to say that it was not the prisoner's practice to make up medicines for his patients. I never saw him making experiments with chemicals in the consulting-room or elsewhere. [Witness was here shown Nos. 19, 20, and 82 of produc tions, comprising two medical diaries and "Blackwood's" shilling scribbling diary.] These are all in the handwrit ing of the prisoner. By Mr. Clark—l remember Mrs. Pritchard going to Edinburgh last year. I remained in the house at Glasgow when she was absent at Edinburgh. I was ill during the time she was absent ; that was in November. I had sick ness and cramp, but I cannot remember of much else. I took ill at dinner-time. When I was ill I vomited. On these occasions when I was taken ill I could hardly sit up. It was in the November that I was first taken ill. The next time that I took ill was in February. I was ill about a fortnight or so. I was not away from table the whole time ; only about three or four days. The Lord Justice-Clerk—l was ill for about a fortnight after being taken ill at dinner-time. By Mr. Clark—l was ill again every morning after breakfast. I was ill about two hours. It was about half an-hour after breakfast. Tho illness lasted about a week in the beginning of February, and I was ill again towards the end of that month. The tea was poured out at table, at breakfast, but it was brought up made. Catherine and sometimes the others brought it up. Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General—Sometime a the doctor poured the tea out and sent it up with the servant. Were you sick in the way that you have mentioned at any time when Mrs. Taylor was in the house ? Yes, shortly after she came. That was the third attack. The first attack was in November, the second in February, and I got better of that and had an attack in the same month of February. I did not feel ill in the latter month, except at breakfast. I was not ill every day. I always vomited when I was ill. You have said something about the cramp, I thing ? Yes, in November. Did tho cramp return in February now and again?— Yes. Where was it ?—ln my hands. Were you able to account for the sicknesi ?—No. Did you mention it to the (lector— I mean the prisoner ? —Yes. He said he thought it gastric typhoid. It was immediately after that sickness that I went home to my father's. I had no sickness there. Cross-examined by Mr. Clark—Was the doctor ill as well as yourself in November ?—Yes, ho was. In the same kind of way ?—Yes. Re-examined by the Solicitor-General—Was he ill in November also ?—Yes, he was. As ill as you ?—I cannot say. By the Lord Justice-Clerk—Were there any other symptoms of illness-besides sickness and cramp ?—Yes, constipation. Anything else ?—Not that I know of. Richard John Christian King, examined by Mr. Gifford —I am a medical student. I went to board with Dr. Pritchard in October last. Mrs. Pritchard was in good health when I went there first. I remember of her going to Edinburgh. She was a little delicate before she left for there. I remember of her coming back. She was pretty well then. She went once again to Edinburgh. lam not sure that the prisoner ever spoke to me about his wife. He has told me what was the matter with her. He said it was gastric fever. After she came back from Edinburgh she was confined for some time. I remember of Mrs. Taylor coming. Mrs. Pritchard was confined to bed at the time. I saw Mks. Pritchard only once while her mother was there ; it was in the drawing-room. I remember the morning Mrs. Taylor died. I had seen her at half-past eight o'clock in the consulting room. She was writing letters. She appeared to be quite well. I next heard of her that night about 10 o'clock. She was dangerously ill the doctor told me. I asked him what was the matter, and he said it was apoplexy. I went to bed between 11 and 12 o'clock, and was awakened sometime about 12 by one of the ser vants telling me the doctor wanted me. I got up and saw the doctor. He asked me to go to the telegraph office and telegraph " Dangerously ill," to Mr. Michael Taylor of Edinburgh, Mrs. Taylor's husband, Did the doctor say how Mrs. Taylor was then ?—He gave see to understand that she was dangerously ill. Did he not lead you to understand that she was dead?— Not at that time. I went to the telegraph office, and telegraphed the message. I came back and saw the doc tor, and he told me to go back again to the office and tele graph to the same person " D ead." Did he tell you that she had been dead the first time ? Yes; he said he did not want to alarm the old gentleman. After Mrs. Taylor's death did you ever see Mrs. Pritchard ?—No ; I never saw her after. She was always up stairs. You remember the night before her death ?—Yes. I came into the house about 11 o'clock that night. When *ere you awakened?—l was awakened about a quarter or half-past 12 by Mary Paterson. I got up and went to the doctor's room. I found him in bed beside Mrs. Pritchard. I looked at Mrs. Pritchard. What state was she in?—She was dead. Did the doctor say anything ?-11e said she was not. The Lord Justice-Clerk (addressing the witness, who was speaking in an almost inaudible tone)—Speak a little louder. Recollect what you are saying is matter of im portance. By Mr. Gifford—Did he say anything more ?—No. Did he ask you to do anything ?—He asked mo to go for Dr. Paterson. I went and saw Dr. Paterson, and he said he would come. When you came back to the house what happened?— One of the servants met me, and said the doctor was not to come. What did you do next 2-1 went down to the Victoria Hotel for Mr. Taylor, the deceased Mrs. Taylor's husband, and got him there. I did not go back to Dr. Paterson's. Dr. Gairdner, professor of medicine in the Uni versity of Glasgow, said he was called in twice by Dr. Pritchard to visit his wife, the first time on the Bth and the second on the 9th of March. On the first visit he found Mrs. Pritchard in a state of ex citement, which he attributed to stimulants, a com bination of champagne and chloroform. When he went from the bedside to the fireside, Mrs. Prit chard called to witness, " Oh, you cruel, cruel man don't leave me." Witness thought they were the exclamations of an intoxicated woman, and ordered Dr. Pritchard to discontinue stimulants, as it was a very bad practice. He gave the same order at his second visit next day. Dr. Paterson, of Glasgow, was called in late at night on the 24th of February to see the mother-in law and wife of the prisoner. Dr. Pritchard told him his mother-in•law and Mrs. Pritchard had been partaking of some bitter beer for supper, soon after which they both became sick and vomited, and both complained that the beer was more bitter to the taste than usual. Witness described the symptoms of the illness of both ladies, the mother-in-law being in a dying state and unconscious, as if suffering from a powerful narcotic, and the wife appeared to be under the influence of antimony. He formed the opinion from what he saw of Mrs. Pritchard while visiting her that she had been having antimony given to her for some time. His impression was that she was being poisoned by antimony, and in cross examination he said he formed that opinion simply by looking at her. He refused a certificate to the registrar as to the cause of death of the mother-in law. He never mentioned poison to Mrs. Pritchard, because the treatment he prescribed, provided she got nothing else, was quite sufficient to have brought her round. He did not communicate to Dr. Prit chard his suspicion as to Mrs. Pritchard being poisoned with antimony, because he did not think it would have beery, safe to do so. James Smithers, registrar of deaths, proved that Dr. Pritchard, in his certificate, ascribed the death of Mrs. Taylor to paralysis, and of his wife to gastric fever. Dr. Patterson was recalled, and said that, in a letter which he sent to the registrar, he told the registrar that the death of Mrs. Taylor " was ex tremely sudden, unexpected, and to him mysteri- ous. ,, Dr. Cowan, of Edinburgh, a friend of Mrs. Prit chard, spoke of the illness of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Pritchard, and said that Dr. Pritchard and Mrs. Taylor had always lived on good terms with each other. Mr. Taylor, the father-in-law of the prisoner, gave evidence as to the death of his wife and daughter, and spoke to his daughter having been sick while on a visit to his house in Edinburgh, about Christmas last, and getting better before she left. His daughter and her husband appeared to live hap pily together. The Court adjourned at 6 o'clock till Wednesday at 10. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. A small supply of English wheat was on sale here to day. Nearly the whole, however, was received in good condition. The demand both for red and white qualities ruled far from active. Nevertheless, all good and fine samples steadily supported Monday's currency, whilst in the value of inferior parcels no alteration took place. The market was but moderately supplied with foreign wheat. Generally speaking the demand was somewhat inactive, but there were no sellers except at quite Monday's quotations. In prices no change took place. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand at fully late rates. The supply of barley on sale was small, and the trade ruled firm at full prices. Malt was in fair demand at quite previous rates. The supply of oats on sale was moderate. Most descrip tions moved off steadily, and prices ruled firm. Beans and peas were in short supply. The demand for them was much restricted, yet previous quotations were supported. A fair business was transacted in flour at full currencies ARRIVALS THIS "WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 1,040 10 1,510 320 350 Irish Foreign 15,610 7,680 46,820 1300 sks. brls COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week ending July For the corresponding week 24, 1865. I last year. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 52,540-41s 6d Barley 514-27 s 6d Oats Qrs. Aver. Wheat 73,494-40s Od Barley 1,473-28 s Od Oats BOROUGH HOP. No change has taken place in the value of hops since wo last wrote. Small supplies of produce are on sale, and the market must be considered firm. The accounts from the plantations are favourable. Election of Sheriffs, Yesterday at 2 o'clock, a meeting of the Livery men was held at Guildhall for the purpose of re ceiving the official return of the election of sheriffs of the city of London and Sheriff of the county of Middlesex for the ensuing year, commencing on the 28th of September next. The present Sheriffs (Alderman Dakin and Alderman Begley), with the Under-Sheriffs, and accompanied by Mr. Secondary Potter, appeared upon the hustings and announced that the numbers at the close of the poll were— for Mr. Sells John Gibbons, alderman and salter, 887 ; Mr. James Figgins, citizen and stationer, 777 ; Mr. John Bennett, citizen and spectacle maker, 581 ; Mr. D. H. Stone, alderman and spectacle maker, 84 ; and Mr. Sydney H. Waterlow, alderman and stationer, 55. They therefore declared Mr. Alderman Gibbons and Mr. James Figgins to have been duly elected by the Livery of London to serve as Sheriffs. The result of the poll was then reported to the Court of Alder men, upon which the Aldermen, with the Lord Mayor at their head, proceeded to the hustings in the Great Hall, and declared, through the Common Sergeant, that the election had fallen upon Mr. Al derman Gibbons and Mr. Figgins. The Sheriffs elect were then called upon by the Town-clerk (Mr. Woodthorpe) to come forward and take upon them selves the office " upon the pain and peril" that would befall them in case of their declining, mean ing that in default the customary fine of £6OO would be imposed, which when paid invariably goes by Act of Parliament towards the support of the Freemen's Orphan School. There have been occa sional instances in which gentlemen elected to fill the office have preferred to pay the fine rather than serve, Sir Morton Peto and the late Mr. Tegg, the bookseller, being among the number. 'ln the latter case, the Freemen's Orphan School not having been then established, the fine paid by Mr. Tegg went towards founding a scholarship in the city of Lon don, which to this day bears his name. A letter was then read by the Town-clerk from Mr. Alderman Gibbons to the effect that he was ready to assume the office. Mr. Figgins personally expressed his ob ligations to the Liverymen for having spontaneously returned him, and his willingness to act. Mr. Ben nett and Alderman Waterlow, two of the unsuccess ful candidates, then briefly addressed the Livery, and intimated their intention to present themselves for election next year. On the motion of Mr. Fin lay a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor for presid ing at the Common-hall was carried by a cclama tion, and the proceedings terminated. The rumours at the West End this morning rela tive to the successor of Lord Westbury as Lord High Chancellor, were very conflicting. The At torney-General, Sir Roundell Palmer, was freely mentioned as being likely to be the successor of the noble lord, but in one generally well informed quarter it was thought that Lord Cranworth would be again offered the Great Seal, or that it would be placed in commission until after the general election. THE NEW BRIDGE AT BLACKFRIARS. —Thursday, July 20, has been fixed by the Bridge-house Estates Committee of the Corporation of London for laying the foundation-stone of the new bridge at Blackfriars, and great preparations are being made for the ceremony, which will bo conducted by the Lord Mayor. As a precaution against accidents by the possible overcrowding of the temporary bridge, it will be entirely closed, both against carriage traffic and foot passengers, on the day of laying the foundation stone from 10 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, and the stone will be laid at the Surrey side of the river. The City authorities will first assemble at Guildhall, and pro ceed thence in great state to the place appointed, headedby the Lord Mayor. A luncheon will be served at the cost of the Bridge-house Committee, at Guildhall, before the pageant starts, and in the evening the Lord Mayor, following the precedent of Mr. Garratt, his predecessor in office, when the foundation-stone of London-bridge was laid in June, 1825; will entertain the Court of Common Council at a banquet at the Mansion-house. The finding of the foundation-stone of the old bridge is anticipated with some curiosity, inas much as it contains many valuable gold coins of the period, and some other articles of interest. The old foundation-stone was laid in the north abutment, and as the work of removing the arch there proceeds the spot is watched night and day lest any unauthorized hands should remove the stone. The stone was laid on the '3lst of October, 1760, so that the bridge has been a comparatively short-lived one, being little more than 100 years old, and during the last 20 or 30 years the repair of it has cost the corporation from first to last a sum fabulous in amount. The foundation was laid on the day just mentioned by Sir Thomas Chitty, the then Lord Mayor, accompanied by the members of the Court of Alder men and Common Council. As the stone was adjusted the Corporation sword and mace were laid upon it, and several roundS of cannon were fired. There were deposited in it a gold five-guinea piece, a two-guinea piece, a guinea, and a half-guinea, a crown, half-crown, shilling, sixpence, a half penny, and a farthing, "to show," as a record of the trans action written at the time states, " at a future distant period the standard of the coin in the late reign" (that of George II.). The architect of the bridge was Mr. Robert Mylne, and there is a tradition that in the enthusiasm of the mo ment he took from his neck a silver medal, bearing a com plimentary inscription, which had been presented to him when a very young man as a token of professional promise and skill by the College of St. Luke, at Rome, and threw it into the cavity of the foundation-stone, in which it was afterwards hermetically sealed along with the various coins. There was also enclosed in the cavity a piece of pure tin, on which was an inscription in Latin, stating that the stone of the bridge, undertaken by the Common Council of Lon don,.was laid "amidst the rage of an expensive war, for the public accommodation and ornament of the city (Robert Mylne being the architect) ; and that these might remain to posterity a monument of the city's affections to the man who by the strength of his genius, steadiness of his mind, and a certain kind of happy contagion of his probity and spirit (under the Divine favour and fortunate auspices of George II.) recovered, augmented, and secured the British empire in Asia, Africa, and America, and restored the ancient reputation and influence of his country among the nations of Europe, the citizens of London have unanimously voted this bridge to be inscribed with the name of William Pitt," MO Very lit general di Bank hay is obserya descriptio readily n , It is, nor( week the] quirt' thi return to rities in a There exchange The C £12,600, The bt comprise) Alexandi and 10,01 A quanti standard packet at alteratioi Quays Winds , grave 1 4 pm. ; ned's I Scrip, 3 i Pn Go 3 per C Do. 6 per C New 3 New 2, Do. 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