The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

side of the body there was a saucepan with greens or T COUNT]
turniptops in it. On the table there was a piece of LIVERPOOL, APRIL M
bacon and pudding. On the way coming from the q cry tor flour, but holders
station-house I noticed blood on the prisoner's hands sent quotations.
under the nails (the blood was still visible on the pri-
soner's hands when he WEI 3 in court). IF! said. " I
have only partially washed them, but if you wish it I
shall wash them cleaner."
Charles Tom;, 1, Durham•piace, carpet bag
manufacturer—Before Airs. Phillips came down to
me this morning I heard a great noise. That was
about half-past or a quarter-past eleven. I was
then in the shop at work. Immediately after-
wards Mrs. Phillips came down, and required me
to go up, and said she thought something would hap-
pen, as there was a great noise upstairs ; but I
did not go up then. I ran down to my brother and
he said, " I shall go up and pull the bell violently."
He did so, and then prisoner came down, and went
out. Then my wife went up, and called out, "He
has murdered her !" and I then made off after him.
I saw him crossing by the cab-rank at the time in
the Lambeth-road, and followed him until I saw a
policeman, near Kennington-lane. I told the police-
man of it, and charged him with the murder. I then
went home and saw the body. His mother was
always very kind to the prisoner. The prisoner is
well educated. At times he is rational, but at other
times he is not. I think he must hive listened when
his mother v►as talking about removing him, and I
think that was the cause of it all. He frequently
talked to himself.
The prisoner—l have been in the habit of talking
to myself.
The witness—His mother was a beautiful woman,
and stood Mt. 10in. or Mt. 1 lin. high. She was
always very kind to him. When he has been very
bad she has threatened to put him away. He has
been in Bedlam eleven months, and seven months in
an asylum at Wandsworth. He has been in Brazil,
and had a sun-stroke as he was crossing the Line. He
had a salary of 3001. a year, and he can speak three
or four different languages.
(A letter found amongst the prisoners papers con-
tained several allusions to poison and madness.)
The case was then remanded till Wednesday, when
the prisoner will be brought up again ; but before then
a coroner's inquest will be held on the body.
The proceedings, which occupied upwards of two
hours, terminated shortly before five o'clock.

s. d . s. d

Wheat, per 701 b _
English, wtute - • 6 6 to 6

Do. red
Irish ..

.. 6 0 - 6 3
. • • 5 6- u 8

Manx, red andwh. 5 8

Dantsie, high mixed 6 10 7 01
Do., mixed .. .. 6 4 6 6

Ainericnn & S white 6 6 6 8
Canadian, /red 5 8

Rostock, &c

.. 6 4 - 6 9

FURTHER PAR fICULARS.

The unhappy man, Thomas Capper Wheeler, who
now stands charged with the dreadful crime of matri-
cide, is in his 28th year, and is the second of two sons,
of the late James Wheeler, a retired Bow-street
officer. The latter, after his retirement, became a
merchant tailor, and after being some years in busi-
ness, he took up his residense in Hercules-buildings,
Lambeth, having amassed a competency, and at which
place he died in 1849.

The deceased bad been left a small income, which
was augmented by regular contributions from her '
eldest son, who married a lady of considerable pro-
perty. The accused bad been from his youth in a
mercantile establiAment in the City, and a few years
since was sent to liidia as correspondent for the firm.
While abroad the unfortunate man was attacked with
brain fever, and soon after recovery was again pros-
trated under what is termed a coup d'aoleil, and of
which he had not got the better upon his return to
England, for shortly after his arrival it was fourA ne-
cessary to place him under restraint.
For some four or five days before the Saturday, the
accused bad been seen to sharpen the chopper and
the knives in ordinary use, but the deceased, so far
from suspecting the motives of her son actually men-
tioned the circurnAance to a neighbour as a sign of
the young man's inclining to industry, he having for
months prior sternly refused to do the most trifling
thing about the place, always, however, insisting upon
going to make such little purchases as the deceased
required.

Yesterday morning upon the visiting surgeon seeing
the accused at Horsemonger-lane Gaol, the latter
observed, " You can't call me a butcher at all events.
I did it very cleanly, and only the neck was too
tough. I would have done it much better, the chopper
deceived me, but the knife was beautifully keen." In
making these remarks the deceased seemed highly
pleased with the dexterity of the dreadful execution
he was alluding to, and the sangfroid of his utterance
chilled the medical gentleman, who, as he was about
departing, was further addressed by the madman as
follows :—" I hope you'll go and see that the windows
are not closed down. I left them up so that the body
of my mother may have the benefit of the air.

E SOUTH•

HORRIBLE SUICIDE ON TH_
WESTERN RAILWAY.
FARNBOROUGH, SUNDAY.—A frighlul occurrence
has taken place upon the London and South-Western
Railway, near the Farnborough station—namely, the
death of an unfortunate individual who was killed by
throwing himself on the railway, and was yesterday
the subject of inquiry before the coroner of the county,
at the new inn in this town. A great number of
witnesses were examined. It seems the deceased was
a man named Arinsworth, between forty and fifty
years of age, the father of the Feltham station-
keeper, on the same line of railway, and who some
years since was in tolerably easy circumstances, but,
in consequence of reverses in business, had become
somewhat reduced. The latter event appeared to have
so preyed on his mind as to impair his intellect.
His friends, anxious that he might be properly taken
care of, had him placed under proper surveillance in
the union. The poor fellow's conduct in the house wag
such that no one ever anticipated he contemplated
laying violent ,hands on himself. On Good Friday
eve he was ordered to take a little walking exer-
cise, in order to improve his health. An attendant
was sent out with him to take care of him, and to
show him round the neighbouring fields. Having
walked about for some time, the poor fellow appa-
rently enjoying his walk, they came near the railway
at this town just as the down express train came in
sight. The unfortunate man, on hearing the noise of
the train, darted from his attendant, and ran upon the
line before the engine up. The keeper called loudly
to him to come back, bat, instead of so doing, he went
forward to meet the train. Johnson, the guard, on
seeing a man on the line, applied the break most
vigorously in order to stop the train, and the engine
driver shut off the steam and sounded the whistle, but
without effect-, and before the momentum of the en-
gine and carriages could be arrested, they came
almost at full spted upon the man, who held his head
down so low as almost to touch the buffers of the lo-
comotive. He was instantly hurled across the metals,
when the wheels of the engine and all the carriages
passed over him, forcing his bone through the shoul-
ders, and it is almost needless to say killing him on
the spot. A verdict was returned that deceased de-
stroyed himself, he being at the time of unsound mind

EXECUTION OF SARAH ANN FRENCH.
LEWES, SATURDAY AFTERNOON.----At noon this
day Mrs. French, who was left for execution at the
late assizes for the wilful murder of her husband,
underwent the sentence on the scaffold in front of the
county gaol in this town.
The motive for the commission of the dreadful
crime appears to have arisen entirely from the unre-
strained indulgence of an impure imagination, which,
led her first to contemplate the violation of her mar-
riage vows by an act of adultery. By a series of little
attentions she endeavours to secure the regard of the
object of her illicit desires, and then proceeds to a more
unequivocal and dangerous display of her guilty
passion, until at last, with unblushing and unwomanly
effrontery, she invites him to a realisation of her
wishes—a proposal at which even he revolts, ignorant
as he appears to have been of the moral relations of
life. He tells her that while her husband is living
such an act would be wrong; and with a suddenness
which indicates a preconceived design, she asks if he
would consent to her wishes in the event of her
husband's death. The remainder is known.
The dark deed is accomplished by her own hands.
She informs her victim she will give him a treat; she
makes up a dish to which she knows he is
partial
poison which is
(perhaps with words of affection on her
oppljured lips),
comes the
scaobnbsuatt:tila—a-
and induces him to eat of the hidden
tt
ioo
n takeof atwhea y his
murderess'slife.
bcl oe
very night of the day—and that day thee. On the
consigned to the grave,
vihn.bewrehiscbhohbeorpheudsbaanndd wbaelsievceodni
crime was buried with him,) no doubt, that her
stances so revolting that yes woman give license to her does the depraved
desires, under circum-
stances
is the substance of th:lelol
re-
collection.
has made
since her condemnation gsol.
to the chaplain of the
The preparations to
nnfoets confession shel
for the awful ceremony were com-
pleted at an At twelve
o'clock
, early hour this morning.
tne whole space in front of the gaol was
crowded by thousands of persons. Shortly after-
wards the governor of the gaol, the under-sheriff,
and other officials, made their appearance, and imme-
diately afterwards'
the scaffold
state of bodily prostration, carried up to
by four attendants. Placed in this condition
ft the Newgate imme-
diately under the beam, Calcra , .
descending, withdrew
execu-
tioner, adjusted the rope, and
the bolt, and the unhappy i woman in a few moments
ceased to exist. Scarcely three years ago the criminal
was a spectator of the execution of Mary Ann Geer-
ing, who became with .her af'erwards a freqw-nt
source of conversation. Geering, it will be recol-
lected, was convicted of a similar crime.—Sunday
2 imes.

EMIGRATION FROM HULL.—The tide of emigration 1'
from Hull seems to be growing stronger as each successive
ship is announced. All our North American fleet are being
fitted up to convey persons to the far west, where golden
prospects are said to await them. Either three or four or
!arp,ts4t Aire were to sfil psterclay or to-morrow, and
they are all wed. litho, both with humau beings and cargoe4
of oil, earthenware, &c. There hasheenac
prin
onsidecriapballeiyinfrflouinx
of foreigners into Hull during the past week,
Holland and Belgium, who are proceeding tp Liycrpcm, tuld
thonBQ tg 40031CriCai_iwift4i4dvertissr.

MARKETS.

-To-day we have a fair in-
lecline taking offers at pre-

F. d. i. d.
Barley, English, pr
imperial quarter 30 0 —3l 0
Irish, Scotch, and
Mans,per 601 b.. 4 1 4 4
Foreign, grinding 4 0— 4 3
Eye, per 6016 • • 4 0— 4 3
Beans, English, pr
imperial quartr 34 0 —36 0
Irish and Scotch,
per 4801 b .. .. 27 0 —3O 0
Dutch .. 30 0 —32 0
Egyptian • • .. 23 6 —24
Peas, English, per
imperial quartr 36 0 —3B 0
Foreign .. 35 6 —36 6
oats, per 4516 :
English, Scotch,
and Welsh, old 3 4 3 6
Irish, nc est
mealin; .. 2 51— 210
Do., feeding .. 2 6 2 7
Do., foreign .. 3 0 3 2
Oatmeal, English,
& Scotch, pr 2401 b 24 0 —25 0
Irish, new .. .. 23 6 —24 0
Do., pinhead .. 25 0 —26 0
'Canadian . • 21 0 —22 0
!Malt, per imp. qr. 52 0 —56 0