The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-23 00:00:00

THIRD EMI ON.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTEL LIGENCE—This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
YORK RACES—This D.Ay,
FILLY SAPLING STAKES.

Ischia ...
Valeria ..
Monitross

TENTH BIENIAL STAKES

Mr. Pitt
Blue Riband
Chi bisa

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Eight ran.
RAWCLIFFE STAKES

Vespasian
Chapel Royal.

EBOR HANDICAP.

Verdant
Claremont
Lady Hylda

Seven ran.

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FOURTH EDITION

SUN OFFICE, HALF-rAsT 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

YORK RACES—Tnis DAY.
PRINCE OF WALES STAKES:

Chibisa
Vulture
Split the Difference .
...................
LOTTERY STAKES.

Sabrena
Our Van
Effie

.....
Six ran.
EBOR ST. LEGER.

Audax
iv.o.
GLASGOW STAKES.

Macdonald..

LONDESBORO' CUP.

Crytheia
Reindeer

Brown Bread
Caller On

Fourteen ran.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Three ran.

HASTINGS RACES-THIS DAY.
EAST SUSSEX HANDICAP.

Boleno
Musketeer
Llangollen

Ton. ran.
INNKEEPERS' PLATE.

Ethelred .
Lord of the Manor .
Betsey Copeland

ran.

YARMOUTH RACES---THis DAY.
GREAT YARMOUTH NURSERY HANDICAP
Miss Roland
Belmontine

Four ra n.
THE COUNTY MEMBERS' STAKES

Mortlake .
Camillus .

THE INNKEELJERS' PLATE.

Turner..
Benvoglio
VICTORIA GARDENS STAKES.
Goldyloeks
Sympathy

A USTR ALIA.

REUTER'S TJELEGRAM.

PLYMOUTH, Aug. 23.
The Swiftsure, from M,elbourne, passed up Channel
late last night. She Lengs 70,000 oz. of gold and
265 passengers.

On the 6th ult. ahe spoke the steamship St.
Thom, from Liverp,col, bound to St. Thomas.

FRIGHTPUI4 MURDER OP THREE
CHILDP;EN BY THEIR MOTHER,

This Day.
Anal' .er sad case of wholesale murders was added
this 'wining to the already fearful catalogue of
crime'. In this instance the scene of the tragedy
was, in a narrow alley known as Skin Market-place,
BlAnkside, Southwark, and the perpetrator is a
f'anale named Esther Lack, aged 41 years, the wife
of John Lack, who is employed as a night watch-
man in the service of Messrs. Pegg, coal mer-
chants, carrying on business in the same locality.
It appears that the accused, with her husband,
her son-in-law and his wife, together with three
children, named respectively Christopher Lack,
aged nine, Eliza Lack, aged five, and Esther
Lack, aged one year and eleven months, resided at
No. 10, Skin Market-alley, and with the exception
of the husband, who had gone out to discharge his
night duties, all retiied to rest as usual, the accused
seeming in her customary health and spirits. At
three o'clock this morning the husband came home,
after being relieved from duty at the coal wharf,
and then he found his wife and the three children
comfortably in bed. He went out again as was his
practice, to call up several workmen and tradesmen
in the neighbourhood, and after an absence of three-
quarters of an hour he returned and again let him-

self into the house. On entering his wife (the ac-
cused) called out to him, " Mate, is that you ?" on
which he responded, " Yes, all right." The accused
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pronounced the three children to be dead. The
husband called in the aid of police-constable
Henry Pope, 54 M, who at once entered the apart-
ment, when the wretched woman, on seeing
him, at once voluntarily declared, " I did it
with a razor," and on searching the room the
constable discovered a razor covered with blood
on the mantel-shelf. The constable took the accused
into custody and conveyed her to the Stones-end
police station, where the charge of wilful murder
was recorded by Acting Inspector Thos. Gardner.
On being searched there were found upon the pri-
soner two other razors, a purse, five duplicates, a
reel of cotton, two letters, and several religious
tracts. The charge having been read over to her
by Acting Inspector Gardner, and after she had
been duly cautioned, the prisoner unhesitatingly said
she had done the deed—that her husband was a
very industrious man, who worked night and day
for very little money, not enough to keep the
children, who wanted shoes to their feet ; that
she herself was about to go to the hospital to be
treated for a bad leg ; and that she had killed the
children in order that they might not die of starva-
tion. The truth of this allegation was denied by
the prisoner's son-in-law, who declared that the
prisoner never received less than £1 per week from
her husband, and that from other sources the family
was in tolerably comfortable circumstances. After
the charge had been entered the prisoner was re-
moved to a cell, and placed under the charge of con-
stables. She was seen lying on the bench, quietly
and calmly sleeping.

The prisoner was examined before Mr. Burcham,
at the Southwark Police-court, this day, when the
above facts were given in evidence against the pri-
soner, and she was fully committed for trial.

FIRE NEAR SMITHFIELD. Yesterday a fire
broke out in the premises of Mr. Norris, printer
and bookbinder, Bartholomew-close. An alarm having
been raised, the engines were speedily in attendance.
There being a plentiful supply of water the flames wore
soon got under. Several of the neighbours suffered loss
from the hasty removal of their furniture. The origin
of the fire is unknown, but we believe the sufferer is in-
sured. About 6 o'clock this morning another fire occurred
in the premises of a veneer merchant and a cabinetmaker
in the Old-street-road. The premises were rather exten-
sive, and before the engines could be brought to bear upon
them, the flames had destroyed nearly the Whole building
and its contents.