The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-21 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITIIFTELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Oa to £4 158 Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 15s Od; and straw, £1 4s:to £1 158 per load.
A fair demand.

CIIMBERLAND.—Merviow hay, £3 55 to £4 158 05 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 16s Od ; and straw, £1 Si to £1 105 per load.
Supply limited.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4lss ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 17s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lss per load.
Trade steady.

DISPATCH OF THE INDIA, CHINA, AND Ala.
TRALIAN MAILS.—SOUTIIAMPTON, Wednesday.—
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Delhi,
Capt. Kellock, sailed hence to-day at three o'clock, with
the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden,
Ceylon, India (except Bombay), China, Mauritius, Aus-
tralia, and New Zealand, together with 33 first and 24
second class passengers. The Delhi took out on freight
144 boxes of specie, value £123,100; and a full cargo of
general merchandise.

The Malta Times mentions the death under pain-
ful circumstances of a promising young officer of the
Royal Engineers, Lieut. Gifford, who had been sent
out from England with his corps to assist in
demolishing the fortifications of Corfu. Tidings
have just been received that he bad been killed by
a fall from his horse. He was much beloved by his
fellow officers.

MURDER AND SuicTDE.—Yesterday morning Dr.
Lsnkeeter held an inquest at the Silver Cup, Cro.
mer-street, Gray's-inn-road, on the bodies of John Thome
Pearce and Keziah Pearce, his wife, who, it will be re-
membered, were found on Monday morning last with
their throats cut at No. 6, Leigh-street, Burton crescent.
The jury proceeded to the house to view the bodies,
which lay in the condition in which they were found.
They wore in a back room on the ground floor, each lying
face downwards. The furniture seemed undisturbed. One
thing, however, attracted the attention of the jury, and that
was that the stove was partly cleaned, with one brush on
the hob, and the fire laid ready for lighting, The woman
appeared to have fallen nearest the door, as though
she had endeavoured to get out of the room. Mrs. Martha
Page identified the body as that of her deceased daughter,
who was 43 years of age. She had been married about a
twelvemonth to John Thomas Pearce, and lived very un-
happily with him owing to his drunkenness. She was afraid
to leave him, as ho had said if she did so he would kill her.
Henry Page, brother to the deceased woman, gave similar
1 testimony, but added that she had told him her husband was,
without cause, jealous of her and young Mr. Ashley. Pearce
and his wife had lived together ever since his sister was 17,
but he believed they had been lately married. Alfred Isaacs
Ashley said his father carried on business at No. 6, Leigh-
street. The deceased woman was their housekeeper, and
the husband also lived there. Their sitting-room was the
back room on the ground floor, and they slept, in one of the
attics. They had been there 6 or 7 months, He believed
that there had been some difference between them, owing to
the husband wishing to leave that house. Mrs. Pearce had
told him that it was owing to jealousy respecting witness,
but there was no foundation for such a thing. On Monday
morning, about S o'clock, witness came downstairs and
found their bedroom door open, and was surprised at finding
the passage door locked. Oa going into the kitchen he saw'
blood coming through the flooring of their room and run-
ning down the wall. He then called is a police-constable.
Pearce conducted himself at times in a strange manner.
James Odell, 28 described the losition in which he found.
the bodies, a hammer, and knife covered with blood, in the
room. Mr. James Thomas Paul, divisional police au' rgeon,
found them both dead. The woman was lying behind
the man. She had a contused wound on the crown of the
head, laying the bone bare. There were two wounds on the
neck, one above the other, each separating all the large
vessels. One of them showed that the windpipe and gullet
had been cut through, and the instrument had passed into
the back of the spine. The blow ou the head was such as
would be produced by a hummer similar to the one belore
the Court. The cause of death was lisa,norrhage from the
wound in the throat. There being no blood upon the
hammer could be accounted fur by the headdress being
struck, and so preventing the immediate escape of the
blood. Harriet
--/Tatopson identified the deceased man as
her son. He was 43 years o age, and worked at St.
Katharine's Ducks, in the bottliag department. About
eight weeks since she visited him, whin her daughter-in-
law told her she was afraid her husband was going mad like
his father, who had been insane ten years. She feared he
would kill her. Her son had also told her that be thought
he should go mad, like his father. Mr. Paul showed that
tho whole of the vessels of the throat of deceased had been
divided, producing death from the self•inflicted wound.
Tho jury returned a verdict in the case of the woman, of
" Willul Murder against John Thomas ,Pearce," and in
that of the man "Suicide while in an unsound state of
mind."
In the week that ended on the 9,11 inst. the total number
of deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr. Glatter, was 435.
The mean temperature of the air in the same week was as
low as 33'1 deg., while in London it wee 44'5 deg.