The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-05 00:00:00

41 per Cents 95 85 Ditto Threes 67 50
Do. end month — New Mexican 45 50

3 per Cents.
Do. end month 67 051
Credit Mobilier
Do. end month
Bank Shares 3565
Credit Foncier 1270
Italian Loan 67 15
Do. cud month G7 30

Do. Bonds 302 50
Russian OO 25
Austrian
Spanish Threes
Home Debt -
Deferred
Roman 74

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1063 75 ... 1066 25
Lyons and Mediterranean 837 50 ... 838 75
Southern 575 ... 577 50
Western 530 ...
Eastern
Sardinian , 303 75 ...
Austrian
Lombard 483 75 .. 486 25
North of Spain 162 .... 161 25
Saragossa 3lO ... 316 25
Ditto to Barcelona

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THE TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD.

SECOND DAY.

EDINBURGH, 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 i/

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

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wanted. So witness left it on the pantry table. About
a quarter of an hour later Mary bl‘Leod came 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 see 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 slie (lied. The bell rang three times, and
after the third ringing witness went to her room.
itness spoke to her about some chemises for her
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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 §lie paid