The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-07 00:00:00

An attempt at murder and self-destruction
transpired in Sheffield on Monday afternoon.
The principal actor is Harvey Teesdale, come-
dian, and the intended victim is his wife. The
parties reside in Blind-lane, and for some time
past appear to have been living unhappily together,
mutual recriminations respecting each other's con-
jugal fidelity being of frequent occurrence. Vie
neighbours say that both were faulty, and that each.
contributed their quota to the cause of domestic
bickerings and strife. A little before four o'clock
on Monday afternoon last Teesdale went to his
house, in company with a man. On arriving on the
steps of the house, it is said, he turned suddenly
round and struck his companion a blow in the face
with his fist, which sent Lim rolling into the street.
He then rushed into the house, fastened the door on
the inside, and directly afterwards the report of a
pistol was heard. This alarmed the neighbours
and patsers-by, and a rush was made by severAl
persons towards the door and the Ai indow:- of the.
dwelling, which resisted their efforts to force for
a few moments. Happily they soon gave way,
and the house was entered. The wife was dis-
covered with her face covered with blood, and
Teesdale with his head lying back on the sofa,
the was had
at
in the act of drawing a razor across his own
throat. He was immediately seized, and prevented
from carrying out his suicidal design. The police
owerenly inflicted
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once conveyed to the Town-hail in a cab. The un-
fortunate woman's face was sadly disfigured, espe-
cially on the right side, but the pistol could only
have contained powder, or she must have been
killed instantaneously. She was removed to the
Sheffield Infirmary, where she now lies, and we
believe there is every hope of her ultimate reco-
very. It is said that the prisoner stated that only
on Monday morning he had gone down on his knees
to his wife, and begged her to give up her present
course of life, and leave the neighbourhood in
which she was living, and that she replied that all
she wanted was to be away from him. This he
assigns is the cause of the act with which he now
stands charged. He also said that he had been
obliged to give up four theatrical engagements
lately through her conduct, and that she was train-
ing up his two girls to be as bad as herself. The
act was evidently a premeditated one if the above
statement be correct.—Shegield Independent.

THE MYSTERIOUS PO.RT.RAIT.- LORD
PALMEBSTON A ITER THE SESSION.

At the quarterly meeting of the Dover Town
Council yesterday (Aug. 6), a laughable conversa-
tion occurred with reference to the portrait of Lord
Palmerston, which it appears has come to hand in a
most mysterious and unfathomable a manner ; nor
were all the efforts of the members present sufficient
to induce the Mayor (who alone possessed the key
of the secret) to unravel it. The minute upon the
" agenda paper" was, that " the council order an
address to the Lord Warden on the presentation to
him of his portrait by the town."
An inquiry was generally made as to where and
how the portrait in question has been obtained.
The Mayor assured the council that the town had.
been put to no expense whatever in the matter, and
with this assurance they must, for the present, rest
perfectly satisfied, and not press him for any further
explanation. About the 10th or 11th of this month
he understood the House would be prorogued, and
a few days afterwards Lord Palmerston would be at
his Castle of Walmer, during which time an oppor-
tunity would doubtless arise to carry out the pre-
sentation. _ _

Mr. Worsfold—The subject is quite new to me.
Mr. Poulter—And to me.
[Other expressions of wonder were also heard at
different parts of the hall.]
Mr. Ottaway—The portrait is new, but the sub-
ject of it is not quite new.
Mr. Robinson—lt's a very old one.
Alderman Latham—We have not had a motion
of council that a portrait shall be presented to his
lordship.
Tie MayorT-It is not necessary.
Alderman Latham—But the portrait never ap-
pears to have been voted.
Mr. Robinson—You don't understand; it's a por-
trait given to the council for the purpose of being
presented to his lordship.
Mr. Worsfold—Then the person who orders the
" rent the portrait had better order the
address.

The Town Clerk explained that the town gave
the
Thep Mayor—Yes,ortraittobehu naggurepaitndtehael.Town-hall.
Mr. Smith—ls there any objection to name the
artist it is by ?
Mr. Smith—There seems to be a deal of mystery
about it.

The Mayor—Be satisfied that it is a very excel-
lent portrait by a first-rate artist. His lordship
has been executed by a man who wears the gold.
medals of the R.S.

Mr. Ottaway—l suppose all this mystery will be
cleared up at a future time.
Mr. Poulter—l don't understand it at all; this
p ' ortrait is to be given by the town to the Lord
—Warden, and no one in the town knows anything
at all about it, and then the Lord Warden is to give
it to the town, that it may be hung up in the Town-
hall.

Mr. Smith—lt's a most discreditable thing.
Captain Noble—We had better ask permiskiion
to hang his lordship in the Town-hall.
Mr. Robinson—Would it not be a little more
congenial to his lordship's feelings,
hanging up, we should say " placed ?" instead of
Alderman Latham—Here is a portrait from an
unknown hand. We don't present it; and I
lord-
would move that thanks be presented W his
ship for having sat to Mrs. Harris, the artist.
Captain Noble—That is not the artist's name
—he's a man with gold medals.
Alderman Latham—The Mayor said Mrs. Harris
(RS.). If it is not her, it is some person equally
difficult to get at.
The Mayor, in order to simplify the matter,
begged to suggest that some one move that space be
found in the hlill.
Mr. S. Finnic thought it would be a proud thing
for their children hereafter to see an excellent per-
trait of so exalted a man, and urging full confidence
in the Mayor, moved that an address be presented.
The town had been relieved from the difficulty of a
subscription, which he felt bound to
The Council were still disposed to
they would not be too fastidio,us
pro-
position of the Mayor Nvouen thoideesay would
never have been got over.
cavil about the
precise form of words, when
, and that the Town Clerk hoped
adopted with con-
..
Noble was sure the honour of the council
fidcenacpet
would not suffer in
the A
ultimately arranged t
purpose of presentingo
layor's hands, and it was
portrait in the 111 form a committee for the
aiso Lord Palmerston with the
n Dieu Hall—a place already
made memorable by his lordship's remarkable speech
his oninstallation as Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports.