The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-23 00:00:00

MEAT MARKETS.

NEwGATE AND LEADENHALL.—AIthough there was an
extensive supply, the demand ruled steady at full prices.
Beef, 2s 4d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 04
to 4s 2d ; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs, by the carcace.
SOUTHALL, DEC. 22.—The supply good, and the demand
steady at full prices. Beef, from 2s 64 to 4s Od ; Mutton,
3s 6d to 4s 10d ; Veal, 3s to Is Od ; Pork 3s Od. to 3s 84
per 81bs, to sink the offal.
ROMFORD, DEC. 22.—We had a very steady market
to-day, and the quotations were very freely supported.
Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s Od ;
Veal, 3s Od to 4s 2d ; Pork, 3s Cd to 3s 84 per 81bs.
Quarter old Store Pigs, 19s to 22s each.
LEWES,: DEC. 22.—Our market was steady to-day, as
follows :—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s to 5s 24 ;
Veal, 38 6d to 4s Od ; Pork, 3s to 3s 8d Der Blbs.

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN

NEWCASTLE.

On Tuesday morning, at the borough police-court,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Robert Knox, a tailor, was brought
up for further examination, on the charge of attempting
to murder his wife. Mrs, Knox, who was disinclined
to appear against her husband, but had been summoned
by the magistrates to attend, said, that on the evening
of Saturday, the 28th of November, her husban d came
home very tipsy, and a quarrel took place b etween
them, but she lost all recollection of what happened
until she found herself wounded, and police-officers in
the room. They had been married twenty-eight years,
and had nine children. Mrs. Brennan said she lived in
the room adjoining the prisoner's. About one o'clock
in the morning of Sunday, the 29th November, she
heard a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Knox screaming on
the stair-head, and on going to their room she found
the prisoner and his wife lying on the floor. Both were
bleeding. The prisoner said, "I have done it, and want
to die in peace." Mr. Brennan, the husband of the
last witness, said that on the morning in quest ion he
followed his wife into Knox's room, assisted to lift Mr.
and Mrs. Knox from the floor, and then went for
policemen and medical assistance. Mr. Finnigan,
clothes dealer, Dog-bank, said that, at one o'clock on
the morning of the 29th ult., he heard the prisoner's
daughter shout, "My mother is stabbed—he Ihad a
knife to my mother." He ran into their room, and
saw Mrs. Knox lying on her left side, near the window.
The prisoner was lying close to her, and a large C 3 rving-
knife was sticking in his breast. Vitness inquire d who
did it, and the prisoner then drew the knife from
his body, threw it upon the ground, and said,
"You see I have done it myself." Mrs Knox scrseamed
and said, •‘ Oh, my heart—l am dying ;" to which
the prisoner replied, "Die hard, you —Mrs.
Finnigan, wife of the last witness, said that winen she
entered the room on the morning in question she heard
the prisoner, who had been told that his wife- would
recover, say, "I wish Z had done it more effectually,
and I wish to die in peace." She unloosed Mrs. Ill:nox's
stays, and found that she had been stabbed.—Mr.. J. L.
Miller, surgeon, said that between one and two o 'clock
on the morning of the 29th ult., he was sent for to the
prisoner's house in Dog-bank. Mrs. Knox had a 'wound
two inches in depth over the eighth rib, which must
have been inflicted with great violence by a sharp knife.
For several days she was dangerously ill, but was now
out of danger. The prisoner had a wound two 01* three
inches deep immediately over the breast bone, but it
was not a dangerous one, the knife having been arrested
in its progress by the bone. . Several other witnesses
were examined, after which Mr. Stoker, solicitor, who
appeared for the prisoner, said that Mrs. Knox lb ad no
wish to prosecute, but if the magistrates cons idered
that that was not sufficient reason why the prisoner
should not be sent for trial, he could say nothing; after
the evidence that had been given. Mr. Airey, like sit-
ting magistrate, said that the case must undoubtedly be
sent for trial. The prisoner was fully committed for
trial at the next assizes.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND MORT
WESTERN RAILWAY.—The up express train from liver
pool and Manchester last night ran off the rails near: Har-
row, in consequence of the tyre of the driving-wh eel of
engine No. 289 flying off. At nearly the same instant
a down merchandise train was passing and caught the
corner of one of the carriages. Both lines were blocked
for some time, and the night goods trains and morning
passenger trains were much delayed in consequence.
Providentiallly, none of the passengers were hurt, but
the guard was killed. We understand that the engine
which caused the accident, was nearly a new one, ma am-
factured by Messrs. Sharp and Co.„ of Manchester.
THE LATH EXTRAORDINARY CHILD DESERTION.--It
will be remembered that a short time since a Mrs. Hughes,
after having placed two interesting girls in a school at St.
John's-Wood, deserted them, and absconded from her own
residence, and that thereon the proprietress of the school
placed them in the Marylebone-workhouse, the authorities
of which, with much difficulty, discovered the mother,
who, upon being arrested, took the children out of the
workhouse. Th affair, through publicity given to it by
the press, excited deep interest, and many parties geae-
rously offered to contribute towards the support of the
children. Amongst the benevolent offers on their behalf,
the latest and most extraordinary were the following :--A
lady residing in the country, possessing 12,0001. a year, and
having no children of her own, proposed adopting the elder
girl, and with that view came up to London, and made
arrangements to meet the mother at a certain place, to take
the child with. her. But the mother did not keep the ap-
pointment, and the lady departed from London without
achieving her object. The next offer was from a gentleman
residing in Edinburgh, who, having six sons and no daugh-
ter, was anxious to rear one of the children as a companion
to his children, and even sent his brother to London to
prepare an outfit and send the girl to Scotland. The
brother, having ascertained Mrs. Hughes's residence, gave
her the required sum to send her child to Edinburgh. The
parochial authorities of Marylebone, who are still anxious
for the fate of the children, have not as yet ascertained
whether Mrs. Hughes has sent the child to her proposed
adopted father ; and as the mother has left her late resi-
dence, Mr. Weeland, the master of the workhouse, has
written to him upon the subject.
A FRENCH GENERAL AND THE RETIRED LIST.—The
Council of State, in two of its recent sittings, was occupied
in hearing a demand made by General de Brigade Chadeys-
son against a decision of the President of the Republic,
dated the 11th December, 1851, by which he was placed on
the retired list. It was stated on his behalf that he had
entered the army on the 29th June, 1813, and had served
for 38 years, 20 of which had been in war, namely, three
years under the Empire, fourteen in• Africa, and three in
Italy ; that, unconnected with political parties, he owed
his different promotions solely to his courage, which had
been eight times mentioned in orders of the day in Africa ;
but that he had been placed in the retired list in Decem-
`her, 1851, because he had declined to accept the com-
mand of the department of the Basses Alpes, at that
time in a state of insurrection • and that thereby the law of
August, 1839, which enacts that generals of brigade shall
only be placed on the retired list at the age of 62 had been
violated, his age being only 56. In reply to the general, a
dispatch was read from the Minister of War, setting forth
that in the extraordinary circumstances which prevailed
in December, 1851, he was perfectly justified in placing
him on the retired list, in consequence of his refusal to
take the military command of the Basses Alpes ; that ho
fell -within the application of a law of 1834, which gave
powor to the Government of placing generals on the retired
list :after they should have been .30 years in service ; and
that apart from that point the constitution of 1852 ex-
prom ly confirmed all the acts done by the President from
the ',cl of December. After hearing pleadings, the council
decided that the demand of the general should be rejected
in 'virtue of the law of 1834.