The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-01 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Triarlmt—This Day.

Market opens rather dearer. S.ale, probably
20,000 bales or more.

The King of the Belgians made an excursion two
days back to Meysse. The rural communes through
which his Majesty passed warmly testified their
satisfaction at his improved health.
M. Gcoffroy de Villeneuve, deputy of the Aisne,
died at Paris yesterday morning, after a protracted
illness.

STABBING. —A dreadful murder was committed at
Middlesborough about midnight on Saturday night.
A young man named Francis Coates, a moulder, was
stabbed by an Irishman named Henry Hughes, and died
soon after from the injuries he had received. Some persons
had been watching Hughes, who was in company with a
woman of loose character, near Albert-bridge, Marton-road,
and this had greatly exasperated him. As Coates was
passing him he rushed upon him and stabbed him in three
different places with a dagger knife. The prisoner and the
woman aro both in the custody of the police. Coates was
a native of Thirsk, in the North Riding, and war a young
man of good character. His dying deposition was taken
before a magistrate, Mr.H. Thompson, at the police station.
Several persons witnessed the murder, but the attack made
upon Coates by the prisoner was so sudden that they were
powerless to render assistance. Coates in his deposition
distinctly speaks as to Hughes, with whom he was slightly
acquainted, being the murderer. He says he was passing
along the street when Hughes, who was standing against
the railway station wall with the woman, named Elizabeth
Goulding, rushed at him and stabbed him in the abdomen,
saying, " You're one of the —that's been watching me—
take that." The woman at the same time challenged the
other persons that were about "to come up to the scratch,"
sa3 ing that. " her man would servo the best of them as
he had done the other fellow" (meaning Coates). Coates
died about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning, as he was being
removed to the Infirmary in Newport-road. If is wounds,
three in number, were dressed at the police station by
Dr. Fawcett, assistant to Mr. Dickenson. They were (one)
a superficial cut on the right side of the neck, three
inches long and a quarter of an inch in depth; (two) a
deep wound in the abdomen, left side, penetrating, it is
thought, to the stomach, and through which the bowels
protruded ; and (three) a deep cut just above the right
thigh. The officers who took the prisoners into custody
were Inspector Read and Police-constable Peacock. The
male prisoner was arrested in a street on the north side of
the railway, and when taken into custody had the knife in
his hand. Tho murder was of the most cold-blooded cha-
racter, and the officers state that none of the parties
were the worse for drink. A more revolting case of deli-
berate murder it is impossible to imagine. The prisoner
does not seem to exhibit the slightest remorse at the part
he played in the transaction. He is a strong muscular fel-
low, of dark complexion, about sft. Sin. in height. He has
been in the town for a number of years. He represents
himself as a single man, but it is known that he has a wife
and family in Ireland. Coates was a young man, about 22
years of age, and unmarried.—Leeds Mercury.
Yesterday morning a large pleasure van, belong-
ing to Mr. Briggs, of Union-street, Southwark,
filled with persons of both sexes, was crossing Wands-
worth Common, on the way to Epsom races, when it was
discovered to be on fire, through some of the smokers
having dropped their lighted tobacco amongst the loose
straw spread at the bottom of the vehicle, which blazed up
and set some of the females' apparel on fire, and one or two
were severely burnt. The flames communicated with the
curtains round the thlc and the awning, and no water
being at hand the van was rendered a complete wreck.
Another accident of' a more serious nature happened to
Mr. Leggett, engineer and die sinker, Caledonian-road,
Islington, in company with Mr. Anseii and Mr. Pearse,
noighbours,who set out in a dog-cart forEpsoni,
to witness
the race for the Derby. They had crossed Westinissster-
bridge and were proceeding towards Bennington, when
the horse, a vicious animal, which had been hired at a
livery yard, became unmanageable and went off at atere
rifle pace. Mr. Leggett, who was driving, lost all controlilision
over the horse, and the dog-cart came in violent
ticto,d.
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with a heavily laden van, the force of which
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three gentlemen a considerable distance.
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taken in an insensible state to the hospitsl, sv ere Mr.
Leggett expired. Mr. Ansell and Mr. Pearse remain in a
precarious state.
SHOCKING 'ACCIDENT BY MACIIINEHY.—A man,
whose name at present is unknown, has been re-
ceived into St. Thomas's Hospital, having received so
serious an injury that it is deemed advisable not at pre-
sent to question him as to the cause of the occurrence, but
from what his companions state ho was feeding a chaff-
cutting machine worked by horse-power. All of a sudden
the horses started the immense blade used for cutting the
clover, fell upon his right arm, and actually cut his hand
off. The poor fellow, having lost such a large quantity of
blood, is not expected to recover,

Two accidents to well known men are mentioned
in the French journals. M. Guizot, at his seat of Val-
Richer, near Lisieux, passing without a light from one
room to another, struck against a piece of furniture and
fell, inflicting a severe contusion on his bead. The Rouen
journals state that he is recovering. The other case is that
of M. Diaz, the painter, who, slipping on the oaken floor
of his studio, came down with considerable force and hurt
his left hip, Tile medical attendants have ordered a total
abstention for some days from any kind of exertioPf