The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-12 00:00:00

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 8s; clover,
£5 Ss to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load.
A fair demand.

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CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 5s to £5 lOs Od ; clover,
£5 5s to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load.
Trade inactive. _

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WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 8s ; clover,
£5 5s to £6 lOs ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load.
Supply moderate.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LON-DON, Jan. 12.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Easterly ; rather fresh breeze, and cloudy weather, with
rain.

BRISTOL, Jan. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Malta,
from Sulina.
FALMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Celestina,
from Sulina. .
SWANSEA, Jan. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Pedro
Ferrer, from Cuba.
HuLL, Jan. 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Bucephalus,
from Quebec.
BRIXHAM, Jan. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Juno, from
London for Sydney.
MUMBLES, Jan. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived7-Hampshire,
from Cuba.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 10.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Cambria,
steamer, for the Cape of Good Hope.
OFF ROCHE'S POINT, Jan. 12.—Arrived—Kangaroo,
from New York.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

PLYMOUTH, Thursday Morning.

Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam vessel Medusa left last
evening for the coast of France. The report current here
now is that the stranded ship she has gone to relieve is her
Majesty's frigate Aurora, 35, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock.
The frigate was commissioned in November, 1863, and be-
longs to the squadron on the North American and West
India station.

10 30 A.M.
It has been blowing hard from south-west all night, and
still continues, with occasional heavy showers.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.

Arrived, Jan. 11—Eskalda, John 'and Henry, Maria
Helen, Theodosia, Promise, and Eliza Reed, from St.
Michael's ; Ellora, from St. John's ; Mary Ann, and Ger-
mania, from Guernsey.
Sailed—Sir R. Peel (steamer), for Dunkirk.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Anchored—lndex, from London, for Hobart Town.

HENRY HEINE'S REMAINS.—AII the posthumous
papers, with the exception of the memoirs, of Heinrich
Heine have just been bought for the Austrian Government.
Prince Metternich, the Austrian Ambassador at Paris, con-
cluded the purchase of these impOrtant literary remains
from the poet's widow, who is residing in the French capi-
tal. The widow Heine is to receive an annuity of B,ooof.
for life as the price of her husband's papers.

THE BIRMINGHAM CONSULATE FOR THE UNITED
STATES.—At the meeting of the Town Council of

Birmingham on Tuesday the following communication to
the Mayor was read:—" Whitehall, 30th December, 1864.
—Sir,—The United States Minister at this Court having
notified to her Majesty's Government the appointment of
Mr. Elihu Burrit as consular agent for that Government at
Birmingham, I am directed by the Secretary of State to
request that you will give directions to the proper autho-
rities to recognise that gentleman in the capacity to which
he has been appointed, if there should be no objection to
that course, and that you will inform the Secretary of State
whether such directions have been given.—l am, sir, your
obedient servant, W. WADDINGTON.—The Mayor of Bir-
mingham.

ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER AT BATH.—At Bath,
on Monday, a young man, named Geo. Preston,
was charged with attempting to murder his wife, a domestic
servant, living at Harley House, the residence of Mr.
Alderman Cook. Elizabeth Preston said—At nine o'clock
yesterday morning, I heard the knock of the postman and
went to the door. As I opened it the prisoner rushed in
upon me, and caught me by the throat, saying, "
thee, I'll do for thee. lie pressed me against the wall,
and held me tightly by the throat and the hair of the
head. He released his hands from my throat and knocked
me down on the floor, when he got upon me, and again
took me by the throat and the hair of the head. I have
no recollection of anything that took place afterwards,
until I was pulled away from him. He came to me on

the 21st of last month from Southampton, and asked if I
would live with him. I told him I would upon the
condition that he treated me better than he did before,
and would work and maintain me. He came to the house
on Saturday, but I refused to see him, as I was afraid of
him.—James Barnes, a postman, dePbsed—l was at Harley
House with some letters yesterday morning, and after I had
knocked Mrs. Preston came to the door. Before she could
take the letters from me, the prisoner rushed by and said,
" Here, my hearty, I want to speak to you." At the same
time he seized the prosecutrix by the hair of the head,
and kept continually working his hand up towards her
throat and face, as if to strangle her. This he did until
he had forced her back against the wall, when in the
struggle Mrs. Preston fell upon her back in the passage,
and the prisoner on the top of her. I then stepped into
the hall and hallooed out, " You rascal, what are yho.lsl
about here ?" He made no answer, but kept working
onel
hand into his wife's throat. My hallooing brought upprom
of the servants, who pushed the prisoner's arm away from
his wife's throat, and assisted in removing
hhe perhir.soner, who
soner then ran out of the house.
assumed a very insolent demeanour,
that when he saw his wife on the 21st Dec.
railway
misdefeendceto,
live with him, and on the platform of the
When at Southampton,
he left her with that understanding.
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him. To prevent any disturbance.h he applied at the police
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station that an officer might
present at the interview, but did not succeed. His. wife
had been living at Mr. Cook's as a single woman, al-
though they had been married five years. Six months
after their marriage she was delivered of an illegitimate
child, and in consequence of that they separated ; but he
loved her dearly, and as she promised to live with him and
make him happy he was glad to be reconciled to her. He
was sentenced to six months' hard labour. The prisoner,
on being removed from the dock, said to his wife, " I'll
do something for you, my lady, when I come back ; I'll put
my fingers upon you."

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OENTRAL CRIMINAL CIVAT—This Day

OLD COURT.
(Before the Lord Chief Baron and Jusit:ce Blackburn.)

The following
adßDditEional ePLAlvidesn'ree°WapmAßtpeare:7l isn. our Third
Edition of last evening :
George Good,
an inspector of the Thames Face, said on
the 9th of November he went to look for the head. A
man, named Jones, directed his attention to what looked
like a rat's hole with blood round It. Ile dug up the earth
and discoved the head of a ma; which he took to the
Graving Dock Tavern.
Mr. Morris, a surgeon of Barking-road, said he was sent
for to see the body, the head of which appeared to have
been detached by the chopper. A knife had also been used
in severing the head from the body.
Dr. Letheby said the hatchet or chopper had been
handed over to him for examination. On the broken part
of the edge he found a small quantity of brownish matter,
which he had removed and submitted to examination
under the microscope. He produced it in the same state
as he removed it. He found some fibres of cotton, and
also some fibres of wool, some of which had originally been
dyed with Magenta red. They were bound together by
something which he could not detect, but which must have
been a liquid originally. He also found some small por-
tions of surface skin of the human skin. He had removed
the handle from the chopper. It was very tightly fixed.
The paint on the top had no effect in tightening it.
A Juror wished to know whether the brownish matter
was identical with the paint on the chopper ?
Dr. Letheby said it was entirely different. Some of the
prisoner's clothes had been handed to him for examination.
He had found on them stains of blood. The stains had
all the character of human blood. •
At the request of one of the jurors, Dr. Letheby ex-
plained the process by which he had arrived at his con-
clusions. •

In cross-examination Dr. Letheby said he found only
two spots of blood, each of which was about the size of a
sixpence.
John Atkins, an engineer residing at North Woolwich,
said that on the 9th of November he found the knife
(produced) in the reed had. At that time some hairs
adhered to the blade of the knife, but they dropped off.
The wife of the last witness confirmed his evidence,
adding that the hairs were of a light brown colour. The
knife was given to the police.
A number of witnesses were called to prove that the
prisoner had pledged various articles belonging to the
deceased, and also to show that the prisoner was very
short of money previous to the day of the murder.
Theodore Furhop said he was the brother of the de--
ceased, who used to reside at Hamburg. On the 27th of
September he left Hamburg for England for the purpose of
going to New' York. He was well supplied with clothes.
He had 8/. ss. in English money, and $5O in German. The
prisoner was unknown to the deceased when he left Ham-
burg.
The Solicitor-General said that was the case for the pro-

secution.

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Mr. Best trusted the Court would not ask him to address
the jury that evening.
The Chief Baron said he certainly should not if the
learned gentleman wished for postponement.
Mr. Best said he did.
The case was then adjourned until to-morrow morning.

This morning the trial of Kohl was resumed, the case
for the prosecution having closed last night.
Mr. Best, at the sitting of the Court, proceeded to address
the jury for the defence. He did not deny that the deceased
man was foully murdered, nor did he deny that the body
was mutilated after death, but the jury would have to con-
sider whether the charge of murder had been brought home
to the prisoner. He then spoke of the relations between
the prisoner and the deceased. The deceased was a
good-natured confiding man, for he trusted M.S.
Warren with his money, watches, rings, and all
the valuables he had, and he showed the same
disposition when he went to live with the prisoner.
The two men were on the most intimate terms, and the
way in which the things were pawned by both of them
showed that there existed between them that cordiality
which was one of the great characteristics of foreigners.
Analysing the evidence, the learned gentleman contended
that the manner in which the prisoner conducted himself
after his friend was missed was not consistent with the
character of a murderer, who usually took every precaution
to conceal his guilt. The circumstantial evidence, he urged,
ought fairly to raise a doubt in the minds of the jury, and
to the benefit of the doubt the prisoner was entitled. He
did not say that the medical evidence ought to be viewed
with suspicion, but it certainly ought to be viewed with
very great care.
The Solicitor-General replied, and referred briefly to a
few of the main incidents of the case. He contended that
Mr. Best had not advanced any theory consistent with the
innocence of the prisoner, nor had he attempted to suggest
who was the murderer, and under what circumstances the
murder was committed if the prisoner was innocent.
The Lord Chief Baron summed up, earnestly and
anxiously impressing upon the jury that by the constitu-
tion of this country the decision rested with them, while
the duty was imposed on them of giving an impartial and
conscientious consideration to the facts before them. With
regard to the manner in which the jury should
,proceed to
determine their verdict he wished to say a word. Upon
that point he was misrepresented in the address he delivered
to the jury in a case of murder not long since. He had
beard Lord Tenterden say—and he quite agreed with his
dictum—that before a jury found a prisoner guilty they
ought to have the same certainty that they would require
in the transaction of their most important affairs—the
highest degree of certainty which they ought to have in
the practical bu.siness of life. Demonstration was not re-
quired, for absolute certainty was scarcely obtainable in any
case. Any other doctrine would paralyse the law in its
administration. _

The jury returned at 25 minutes past one o'clock, and at
ten minutes before two returned, and asked several ques-
tions in reference to the distances from the reed bed to the
Commercial-road, the sugar-house, and other places. Hav-
ing received information on these points they again retired.
At five minutes past two they came again into court with
a verdict of GUILTY.
Mr. Justice Blackburn sentenced him to death. He
remarked that the evidence was quite sufficient to warrant

the verdict, and that there was no hope of mercy being
extended to him.

The prisoner was then handed over to the Sheriff of
Essex. The execution will take place at Chelmsford.

SPORTING INTE L LIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—WEDNEspar.

WATERLOO COURSING CUP.
100 to 7 agst Lord Uffingtort's nomination (taken)
100 to 6 agst Mr. Jardine's nomination (offered)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Haywood's nomination (offered)
33 to 1 agst Mr. J. Bland's nomination (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Croft's nomination (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Stocker's nomination (offered)

TWO THOUSAND.
10 to 1 agst Zambesi (taken)
25 to 1 agst Congress (taken)
DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Liddington (taken)
50 to 1 agst Congress (offered—take 2,000 to 25)
66 to 1 agst Audax (taken to 1301.)

RACING FIXT

Harrow

JANU.

jRES FOR 1865.
rARY.

FEBR'
Birmingham l6
Lincoln Spring 2l

Derby Spring 2
Liverpool Spring 7
Shrewsbury Spring 9
Doncaster Spring l4

ARY.
Nottingham Spring 2B

AR
Northampton 4
Croxton Park 7
Newmarket Craven l7
Durham

Warwick Spring
Chelmsford Spring
Barham 3O

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB

XL.
Catterick Bridge ........... 19
Abergavenny ............... 20
Thirsk ........................ 21
25
Epsom Spring ............

Manchester
Chelmsford
Ascot ........................ 13
Alexandra Park 20
Hampton 2l
Newton 2l
-Jl7.
Newmarket July ..... 4
.
Carlisle 4
Worcester 6
Pontefract lO
Abingdon
Stanford 3l

LY.
Bath ........................... '23
Harpenden .................. 26
Epsom ....................... 30

cs.
2G
Liverpool
27
Newcastle
Odihara
Bidbury
Stockbridge

Heref0rd.........,,,,,,,,,„ l3
NottinghamlB
Winchester lB
Southampton l9
Chesterfield
Goodwood

AUGUST.

Brighton - —.
1 York 22
Brighton Club ............... 3 Plymouth 2,1
Huntingdon .................. 8 Lichfield 2B
Reading ..................... ...10 Devon and Exeter 29
Egham ........................ 15 Derby Summer 3O
Oxford ""•'••••••••••••......17 Weymouth 3l

Leicester 7
Doncaster 12
Brecon lB
Richmond 19

Monmouth
Manchester Autumn 22
Newmarket Ist Oct. 26
Walsall 27

Nov ready, G. SHELTON'S Derby Guide, is. G. R.
Glenie, Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park ;
Sunday Times Office, Fleet-street ; and all agents.

Advices from Martinique to the 21st December
have been received. On the previous day the
transport frigate Amazone had arrived at Fort-de-
France from Vera Cruz and Havana, having on
board 1,900 men of the Mexican expeditionary
army, and was to continue her route to Toulon,
after a short stay. The last troops designated to
return to France had received orders from Marshal
Bazaine not to leave Vera Cruz until the latter
part of January, when the Austrian legion would
have arrived.