The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-11 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Sales of the week, 32,220 bales, including 5,160
on spec, and 11,370 bales for export. Actual ex-
port 7,256 bales. Estimated stock, 253,220 bales.
Quotations—Middling Orleans 271 ; Upland, 27 ;
estimated fair Egyptian, 271; Surats, 12 to 251.
Imports of the week, 26,912.
Market steady and firmer. Sales probably 5;000
or 6,000.

Extraordinary Bigamy Case at Sunderland:

At Sunderland, on Wednesday, John Grieve,
lately assistant civil engineer to the River Wear
Commissioners, was charged with bigamy. The
history of the man is somewhat peculiar. In Sep-
tember, 1856, he was married to Matilda Blench, at
Bishopton Church, describing himself as a professor
of mathematics, named John Dixon Grieves, and
the son of a barrister. He was in fact at this time
engaged at the Tyne Docks. After living with his
wife a month he left her, and was not heard
of till May, 1862, when he wrote from the
Glasgow Gaol, asking for a few postage
stamps and some letters to comfort him. He soon
afterwards obtained his appointment under the
Wear Commissioners. While employed thus in
Sunderland, he called at the shop of a Miss Waldie,
and introduc,ll himself by saying he knew the late
Mr. Waldie, banker of Kelso, and asked if she was
any relation. A few days afterwards, Miss Waldie
received a letter proposing marriage, in which the
defendant said he had never met with any one he
could love but her. After a few inquiries she c, n-
sented, and they were married on October 23.
Three days afterwards, he left for Liverpool to ob-
tain a situation, and wrote several times asking for
money, which was always sent to him, till the
unfortunate lady discovered that he had been
previously married. He was apprehended in Ire-
land, and on Dec. 3 his second wife received the
following letter from him, dated from the Sunder_
land prison :—" Through the great goodness of Mr.
Stainsby I am permitted to drop you a few lines.
How strange and mysterious are the ways of Pro-
vidence. Little did I know the last Sabbath that
I spent with you that you would be the means of
sending me here. I look to the future with trem-
bling despair. Good heavens! what a situation lam
in. The sight of a green field and the great silent sky
above it—O I why should it be denied mortal man ?
But there is a day coming in the history of man-
kind--that grand universal inquest when the
secrets of all hearts shall be laid open, it will be
known then how I was so treacherously betrayed
by the Blenches, they drugged my drink and made
me quite stupid. They had the licence and the ring
prepared. I have no more recollection of that fatal
day than I have of the deluge that destroyed the
earth. The c;ergyman when he saw that I was
stupid with drink, said he had committed a most
illegal act in reading the service. The Blenches
knew this right well, and they have no claim
upon me. I am truly sorry for you ; but
you must remember that you are and will
be my wife in the sight of heaven. I
married you with my will but never any other. I
am heavy-hearted, lonesome, and sad. I do not
know what to do a long dreary winter in prison.
New Year's Day was the day appointed to com-
mence my situation in Liverpool. Oh, what a
change ! lam very hungry ! For the days that
are departed will you not condescend to send me a
small piece of something to eat ?" A number of
witnesses were called to prove that the statement of
his being intoxicated at the wedding was entirely
untrue, and he was committed for trial.