The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINCI, JULY 9, 18624

Etf3ITISH POSSESSIONS.

sh.vai -----E-----ailways.
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_aid Cploriscie.no
f— Closing
Business done
100 I-Atlantic S.; St Lawrence all 60 C 4 63
stk 100 100 101 xd
Gu. 5 per cent.
201 Buffalo an dL.
•,,xe _Huron all 41 5 d
204 I Do. New ....... ...
10 Do. Preierunce ....
I ;Bona.,Baroda&.Cent Ind
Builalo 13rant,&Godrici)
Aug.l, ,
~ 10,2 80
100
110000 I ' D61:00.: eLddloo)
do. .1
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;.: ;713" 10000 ;fsi 2
st Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Li n ) 100 101 103
st Cape Town & Dock Scrii 100 107 109
174 Demerara.. .......
stock Eastn. Bengal gu. 6p. ( 100 1021 1(31 x d
stock East Indian, gu. sp. e. 100 1011 1051 1041 54 5
20 Do. do. G Ext all 1 1p
20 Do. do. II do.
stock Grand Trunk 01 Canada 10u 211 co
100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 60 64
NO Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct all 51 54
100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 33 36 40
100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862
100 Do. do. 1867
100 Do. do. 1872
stock Gt.lndiaPcnin.g,-ua.sp.c 100 102 103 102/ x d
20 Do. New gua. sp. c l2 4 4 p
20 Do. January, 1862
stock !Gt. South.of India(Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 100 101
204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 11/ 110
204 Do. New
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 97 100
100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all 84 82
100 Do. 1878 all 88 82 1001 15
10 Indian Branch Limited 1 1 dis par
stock Madras. guar., sp. e.
stock Do. 4/ p. c. Extension 100 941 954
stock Do. 4.} do lOO 91 93
stock nelb.Corp. 6p. c. Ends lOO
20 Newßrunswick & Cant:
Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7
Class A Capital Share
... 'Do. do. Land do
20 Do. do. B Capital do all 4 C
.. Do. do. Land do. .-
N.Rl.C'da 6pc Ist pi bds 100 85 es
x d
stock 'Scinde .....• ... • ..z 100 1021 1031
20 iDo. Punjaub ... l5 4 „
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20 'Do. Do. .. .... L 2 13
2 . all 204 201
stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. . r,,,g 100 98 100
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LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
) Paid. 1 Leasing Closing Business
Railways. Co. s Price. Done.
. .......___--
Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W
Birkenhead.. , lOO Do.&G.W 87 89
Buckingh-ms'aire:
Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do. 55 56
Do. 51 per cent 10 Do.
Do. 5 „ 1000
Do.
Clydesdale Junction 100 Cledon lO2 104
Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&.141C 65 67
E. Lincolnsh. gBpr c. 100 ,Gt.Ncrth. 136 138
E.Union,HarwichShs all E.Counts. 44 41
Do. Woodbridge.... 100 .. • • • •
Gls. Barr.&Neils:Dret. 100 Cledon
Gloster & Dean Forest all Gt. West .. ..
Hull and Selby i all Yk.N. Mid 110 112
Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 109 162
Lon. and Chat. Ext. B
6 per cent
Do. Bromley. 6 per c , all D 0........ .. ..
Do. New ShlB6l, 4 q).c all D 0........ 21 23
Do.Wn. Ext. A, 41 p c all Do. .... ... si 0
London & Greenwich 100 S.Eastern 63 55
Do. Preferen .3
Lon.,Tilb.& Ss. ithend , 100 Peto &Co B6BBxd
Lowestoft gua. I p c..' 100 Norfolk
Do 6 per cent lOO Do.
Illnc.,Extn.,& Matlock all LNW& M 31 44
Mid. Bradford Prefer-
ence stock
Newmarkt, BuryEx 1
gua. 5 per cent... 5. 5. 6. E Counts. p 1 p pm
Northn.&Eastn. sp. c.! all Do.
Do. 6 per cent. ....I all Do.
N. Eastn—Hartlepool! 1(0 N. E. Ber .. ..
North Western ! all Midland 161 17
Not. Gran. El. & Cl. 100 Gt.Nortli. 94 95
Preston and Wyre. 11 all L &N.W
&L. yk. 1 44 46
Do. 4 shares A. all Do. • • ••.. .. ..
Roystn.Hitch,k Shep.l 100 Gt. North. 135 137
Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 125 130
Do. Do.
South Staffordshire I 100 Ln.&N.'W .. ..
West London, Cls A ' all W.Ln.Ex,
Do do B ' all ;Ln&N.W.'
Do do C all Ict Cit.Wst.'
Wilts and Somerset lOO 'Gt. West. 91 93
Wimbledn & Croydon all L.&BrgtnJl 81 91

FOREIGN RAILWAYS

Share' Railways.

Paid. Closing Business
Price. Done.

Antwerp & Rotterdam.
Ardennes.... ..... • •
Bah. & S.Frau.. L m. 7 p.c
Belgian East. Junction
Carmeaux Mine & Rail
Copiapo .......•...• •• ••
Ditto Extension
Dutch Rhenish ......•
Do
Eastern of France
Grand Rus Guar. 6 p. c.
Gt. Luxem., Con. she
Italian Junction
Namur & Liege
Do. 6 p. a. Pref
Northern of France
Do. New Shares -
Norwegian Trunk Pref.
Ot'mn (Smyrna to Aidn)
Paris,Lyons, &
Paris & Orleans
Recife & S. Fran. (Perla )
gua. 7 p. et. Urn.-
Riga & Dunahurg
royal Danish
Royal Swedish
Do. 7 per cent. Pref
iambre & Meuse
Do. 5i per cent. Prof
,an Paulo, lira, g. 7 p. c
i.Aust. &Lomb Venetia
A. East Portugal 7 p Ct.
Turin and Savona
,outhern of France
West Fianden3
Do. 5i p o. Preference
W. & N.W. of France

et 7

1i 1) p
11 11
NI 14

4i 4
1* p

21 22

141 14i

8i Si
196 20i
39i 106

8 10
8 ;d
42i 43i
49 61

15 15i

15 16

101 10f
9 9y
Pm
41 41 p

3? 33
7k 7i
10
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FREFERENCE SRi
[ends contingent on the

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*Caledon. £lO Gua. Stk
Cornwall 41 p.c. ga. p erp
*E. Anglian, Clsß, 6 p.c.
* Do. CIA, 7 p.c.l
Edin,Prth,&D'dee,4p.c.
Lond'n, Brig'tn,
per cent.... 1858
Do. do. 4 per ct 1860
Do. do. 4i per ct 1831
Do. do. 44 per ct 1861
Lon. e& Chat' fn. Metrop.
Ext. B, 6
Lon. &S.Western 44 p.c.
North British £lO Gua.

A.RE S
Profits

Shares, 1861
*ScottishCentral 4i p.c
irred. pref
S.-Eastern 4i p.c. 1859
Do. 5 p.c. June 1861 (rd )
Do. 5 p.c. Aug. 1861 (rd )
Vale of Neath • •
lilure of full dividends ii
good out of the profits

21 22

AND
of each Gi

100
all
100
100
100

103 105

120 123
130 133
81 83

103 105
92 95
103 105

10k 101
103 105

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all
in any
of any

pr
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201 21}
given haJf-
subsequent

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made

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'OCKS
'parate Year.

rear not to be
half year.

BRITISH MINES. a
Nlfred Consols (Philack) 3.9.3 tc
Clifford nil 24 26 tl
I - Devon G. Con, (Taoist 1 430 440 b
1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 6s. par 1p
East Bassett (Illogan) 4O 42 44
East Caradon ......
East Carn Brea.
E. W'lltussel (Tavistk 7.126 4 41 a
GamdtStAubyn(Gwen ) 561 16 18 s
Great South Tolgus
G.Wheal Alfa. (Philack -
- G. -Wheal Vor (Helston) 40 51 61 r
Grenville 6.15.6 7 7
Herod's-Foot 8.12 37 39
ilingston Downs 4.14 21 34 N
Lady Bertha
Margaret (tiny Lelanti 97, 42 44
Marke Valley.
4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 2/ 1 4 (
..- North Downs 2l 41 44
North Frances (Mogan 12.3 -
- N. WWI Basset (Illog•an) .1.9 0 4 4i
North Wheal Crotty
Par Consols (St. Blazey) 14 5 6 i
20 Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 40 42 ' 1
Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 1 1 1
South Caradon(St.Cleer) 'l4 330 140
S. Carn Brea (Illogan).. 5.11.6 3 3.1
S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.1R.b 1174 1101 1
Stray Park
5 Tamar Silv..it Lead Alin 41 If 1 1
10 Tin Crott
9 11 111
West Basset (Illov,an) ll 12 13
W Caradon (Liskeard) 5 33 35
West Seton
Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5 870 921
Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 35 45
Whcdl Edward (Cals.) 71 11 11
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelan 1.7.2
Wheal Mary Ann (Men.)t) 8 11101 13114
Wheal Trefawney (Lis.) 7 12 14
FOREIGN MINES.
20 Australian
1 BonAccordCopper,Lim all 4 1
15 ilrazilLand & Min.Co all 1 1
.o Cobre -Copper all 19 22
20 Copiapo
2 Capula Silver les. pr fpm
1 DunMoun.Cop.Minz.Co ail 1 ;4p
3 East Del Roy (Limited) 1 pr 4
2 Fortuna....
20 General all 21 '.3
2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr. 14 ; i d
11 Kapunda kLimited) I a - ?, p
2 Linares all 61 71
5 Lusitanian 2 4 d rari
1 llarietuita all 1 4
1 N.RhineCopoiS.Aus.L / 1 1 ds' 4
20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead
Mining and Smelt all 2 4
6 Port Philip 1 1 14
1 Santaßarbara GldMine 1 1 1 pm, 14
1 Scottish Austrin. (L.).. 10s. 14 llpm
20 St. John del Rey (L.).— 15 57 59xd
28.2.81 United Mexican ........ all 64 64
1 Worthing (Limited). ... all 4 I i
1 YudanamutanaS.A.Ld. all 24 3 1
DOCKS.
-
stock ;Commercial 1 100
stock I Do. 4 per CentPret.Min 100
stock ' East and West India 1 100 131 134
stock London ......1 100 t 6 18 561
stock 'St Katharine ...... , 100 56 58
Stock Southampton ' 100 -.
Stdck ITistoria... ........ lO2 0 196 98 x d
20 Do' New • --."--, Ild par I
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
100 12-ractlJnitedService Bk 50 188 89
100 Alliance B.Ln.&L'pool. 7 31 3-:p 11/ 10;
40 .tustralasia.
25 '.lank of Egypt all 23 24
100 fla-ak of London ...
.. .
50 iiritigh North A merear a.l
twit..., ,te all 204 21
20 Ch. Bk. of B. Columbia 5 1 dis ip 4;
21022752:00: ('htd.liank of
25 Chiller. of In. Lon.,t, CI: all 34 16
100 City .. .
100 Colonial.. .... . ..... ..• 25 41 43
London
London
100 2:0
13,1]10 & Aus. Ch all 171 184 18
1:11
17°,0eor anni 1 e 3. (rRo Bank,`l
nikai ala. °rl3n. tß'ad°Snkt\skov C.
fi
A:inerari
cidan.Limited' ' aa7,.11,11 i—Qdlis
83:2-97 73481
LNoant.dreopn. and Brazilian 5 a IP
20
JointandC Austral County 20 all c 5;
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DO.
new 12
of England
& Pirroevistninli.nßgntek.l
100
20 New South jpo
100 I 2100 841
100
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20
50 National 17I•••• •••• • - • • 12
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1242 id i s pf
,Lnk 30
Bank oration . all 51 62
ales...—. all 40 42
25 Orient. B.
20 Otto
100 Provincial of Ireland . all ~6 /7 261 1
10 Do. new...... .. 25 87 9 x d
25 South Australla•••••‘: . • all
37 36/ x d
25 Union of Australfa' -:: all 35
50 Union of London all 451 464
344
100 Unity Mutua1...........••• 12 341 351
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CRIMINAL COURT-THB DAY.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
TDB LUDGATE-HILL TRAGEDY.

Ann Cornish Vyse was this morning placed in the dock,
to answer an indictment charging her wit). the wilful
murder of her two children, Alice Kate Vyse aged 7, and
Annie Vyse, aged 5.
The prisoner was led into the dock, suppored by two of
the female warders of Newgate, and placed in a chair, ap-
parently suffering under the most poignant grid.
Upon the clerk of the arraigns reading the indictment,
and asking the prisoner whether she was guilty or not
guilty, she replied in a voice scarcely audible, ''Not guilty."
Mr. Montague Chambers, Q.C., with Mr. Sbigh and Mr.
Besley, appeared for the prosecution, and Sergeant Ballan-
tine and Mr. Metcalfe defended the prisoner.
Mr. Chambers, in stating the case to the jury, entered at
great length into the whole of the facts connected with the
calamity ; but as they have already appeared it length in
The Sun, there is no need of repetition.
The first witness examined was Mr. John Taylor, assist-
ant to Mr. Keating, which was simply to the effect that he
sold Mrs. Vyse three packets of " Battle's Vermin-killer."
Mary Ann M'Sweeny repeated the evidence she gave at
the coroner's inquest.

Sarah Saunders, sister to the prisoner, was next exa-
mined. Tier evidence is perfectly well known. On com-
ing to the point relative to the letter her sister gave her on
the day of the tragedy, she said—ldid not read the note, I
merely scanned it. I cannot recollect anything it con-
tained.

Justice Wightman—Was it a long letter ?
Witness—A short one.

Mr. Chambers—Can't you recollect one word ?
Witness—No, not one word. I was so ill I don't know
even how the letter was addressed.

Mr. Chambers—l have no wish to press hard upon the
point, but can't you recollect anything to which it related ?
Witness-L-Nothing.
Mr. Chambers—Where did you keep it alter you received
it ?

Witness—ln my pocket.
Mr. Chambers—When did you destroy it, before or after
the inquest?

Witness—Before.
Mr. Chambers—Did you destroy it by direction of any
person?
Witness--No; of my own accord.

•
Cross-examined by Sergeant Ballantine_My sister was
forewoman to Mr. Vyso before he married her, I was also
in the same establishment. My sister and myself were on
the most affectionate terms. I have been with her a
great deal since the lamentable event. My sister was
a very kind mother to her children. I recollect her
losing a. child by death in_November, 1860. It was
a year and 10 months old. She was not able to get to it,
as it was at Surbiton, as early as she could wish. She
always fancied she could have saved its life if she had been
present sooner. There was also some unfortunate circum-
stance relating to its burial, The vault got over flooded,
Ever since then I have observed a marked difference in my
sister's manner. She has been desponding in the extreme.
I know that the period of my sister beia unwell passed
without her being so. I know as a fact that she has not
been unwell since the last week in April.
Mr. Chambers—l believe your sister managed the con-
cern on Ludgate-hill ?

Witness—Yes.
Mr. Chambers—And she was considered a good woman
of business P
Witness—Yes.
Mr. Chambers—flow many persons are engaged in the
house ?

Witness—About twenty.
The cook in Mr. Vyse's service here repeated her evi-
dence relating to the food the children had for dinner.
Mrs. Harrison, the female searcher of the Fleet-street
police-station, was then called. She said—l was in Mrs.
Vyse's room after the discovery of the deaths of the chil-
dren. Mrs. Vyse sent for Smith, the porter. On his
entering the room she shook hands with him, and said,
" Ah, Mary, has been the sole cause -of this here." Smith
said, " Keep yourself quiet, ma'm ; if I could lay my life
down, or 5,000 lives, to recall what you did yesterday, I
would do so." Mrs. Vyse said, "It is done, and it cannot
be undone."

Cross-examined—l am certain Mrs. Vyse made use of the
words I have used. I had no difficulty in hearing it. She
spoke quite plainly. She did not speak quite as plainly as
I do. Miss Saunders was not in the room when Mrs.
Vyse made the remark. _ _

Miss baunders was recalled, and in answer to Sergeant
Ballantine said there is no person in the establishment that
I know named Mary. I never heard my sister complain
of anything about Mary Wore. The cook's name is Mary,
but then she is not called by that name.
Mr. Justice Wightman—Then you never heard your sis-
ter on any occasion complain about Mary ?
Witness—Never.

William Smith, the porter, examined byMr. Chambers—
Ho said, I will tell you all I recollect of what took place
when I went into the room in consequence of being sent
for by Mrs. Vyse. I took her hand, and then she said, as
far as I eculd understand, " What will they do, or what
will he do with me." I had been drinking that night and I
was very much excited.
Cross.examined by Sergeant Ballantine—l have never
seen Mrs. Vyse since that time. I had been up all night
and was very much distressed at what had taken place
when 1 was in Mrs. Vyse's room.
Inspector Howard proved the production of the papers
which had contained the "vermin killer" powder, before
the coroner. They were taken from the pocket of Mrs
Vyse's dress.

Dr. Payne, who attended Mrs. Vyse after she had in-
flicted the injury on her throat, in his cross-examination
by Sergeant Ballantine, said—l consider that the prisoner
having remained with the children and put them into bed
after death was a morbid dwelling upon the deed. A sane
person would naturally rush from the contemplation of
such a horrid deed. I consider her remaining in the room
after the death of the children a morbid dwelling on the
deed. Mrs. Vyse, as a married lady, was then at a very
critical period. I have known ladies in a similar condition
to suffer severely from affections of the brain. Supposing
there had been a morbid affection of the brain, the loss of
blood Mrs. Vyse had sustained would greatly relieve her.
Mr. Savory, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, spoke to the
appearance of the bodies of the children after death, and
also to the circumstance that strychnine had been admini-
stered.

Mr. Chambers—How much strychnine would kill child-
ren of the ages of the deceased P
Witness—That would depend on the mode in which it
was administered, whether solid or in solution. I should
say a quarter of a grain would most probably kill.
Mr. Justice Wightman—What would be the most rapidly
effectual

Witness—Solution by far.
Mr. Chambers—How soon after its administration would
its effects become evident—suppose a couple of grains were
given ?
Witness—l should think the effects would commence in
about a quarter of an hour, supposing it were given in the
form of a pill; but I cannot speak positively as to that
point.

Justice Wightman—Suppose it was given in solution ?
Witness—Then it would act in four or five minutes. I
gave the substance I obtained from the body of one of the
children to a cat, and it produced the usual evidence of
strychnine.
Mr. Attfield, demonstrator of practical chemistry at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, said—l analysed the contents of
the stomachs handed over to me by Mr. Savory. In both
I detected the presence of strychnine. 1 have also analysed
" Battle's vermin killer" powder. It consists of starch,
sugar, Prussian blue, and strychnine—the latter formed 10
per cent. of the mixture. The packet given to me by Mr.
Savory weighed 52 grains, and the strychnine in it would
be five grains. From what I have heard from Mt. Savory
I should say the sixpenny packet would contain a sufficient
quantity to destroy the lives of two children.
This closed the case for the prosecution.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine then proceeded to address the
jury for the prisoner. He said in the whole of his
lengthened experier.c;e, and the learned judge would bear
him out, a wore melancholy spectacle had never been
presented in a court of justice. Here was the prisoner, a
person but a short time ago surrounded by wealth and
luxury, now at the bar of that court) charged with
the highest offence known to the law—viz., of wilful
murder of two of her children whom she loved. Whatever
might be the result of their verdict the consequences were
too terrible to contemplate, but before he concluded the
difficult and painful task, he should, he felt convinced, leave
no doubt that the prisoner was net, at the time, in a con-
dition to be responsible for her own actions. If the jury
took that view of the case, even then it was impossible not
to think that even the prisoner in the long incarceration
that awaited her, would not have preferred, when she had
been discovered with life streaming from her, that the kind
interference had not taken place. He felt confident
that the result of this lamentable inquiry would
be such as to clear the name of the unhappy
lady from the crime of killing her two children—children,
as he had already said, she loved more than perhaps a
mother ought to do. The absence of motive was a very
important point for their consideration. In this case could
it be said there was the slightest motive ? Why, ordinary
persons wheh they first read the circumstances con-
nected with the melancholy case, involuntarily exclaimed,
"Why the woman must be mad I" and such he certainly
thought would be their decision. It was well known that
females suckling after becoming enciente were liable to at-
tacke of great nervousness, and he understood that was the
case of the afflicted lady at the bar. He should also call
before them evidence to show that many of the rela•
tions of the lady had been afflicted with insanity,
and he firmly believed that there was no doubt that
Mrs. Vyse suffered from the same malady, and that
her mind at times was liable to lose its balance.
The learned gentleman then commented on the evidence
given by the witness Harrison, the searcher at a police
station, whom, he said, he thought the jury would be of
opinion was not quite the sort of person who ought to have
been :put in attendance of a person suffering under the

frightful nervousness that Mrs. Vyse was suffering,
Nothing, to his mind, could bear out in a stronger manner
the assertion that she was an irresponsible agent than that
she, a fond, loving, and devoted mother, could witness the
writhings and agonies of her children, and then with cool-
ness and composure proceed to lay them out on the bed
in the manner they were discovered. He hoped that, after
hearing the evidence he should adduce that the verdict
would he such as to enable the remaining children of Mrs.
Vyse to know their mother was not a murderess.
The following evidence was then offered for the de-
fence :

Mr. Richard Vine, a chemist and druggist at Bayswater,
and uncle to the prisoner, said his brother Peter committed
suicide, his mother was subject to melancholy mania, as
also were two cousins of his.

Dr. Forbes Winslow is to be examined for the defence.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

NEW COURT.
(Before Baron Martin.)
THE HENDON TRAGEDY.

James Lavinson was indicted for the wilful murder of
Sarah Ann Cocks at Hendon.

The facts of this case have repeatedly appeared in The
Sun. It will be remembered that the unfortunate girl met
er death from a gun-shot wound in the head, and the pri-
soner was accused of discharging the weapon.

SPORTING---THIS DAY.

NEWMARKET RACES-THIS DAY

SWEEPSTAKES, 10 SOVS.

Tubal Cane
Fig
Maid of Honour 3
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOVS.
Dead heat with Oberon and Boabdil.