The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-08 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

Mr. Selle having inquired the cause of prisoner's attempt
;o commit suicide,

Sergeant Purches replied that she had stated her hus-
band deserted her and her child six years ago, and coming
home last Wednesday stripped her of all her money, which
had such an effect upon her mind that she went to different
chemists shops, and purchased the laudanum.

Mr. Selfe said that he should remand the prisoner for a
week.

THAMES.

STTEALING WOOL.—Oliver Dodd, a strange-looking
follow, aged 58, and who 'described himself as a labourer,
was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing
21b. of wool.

George Raine, a Thames Police-constable, saw the pri-
soner yesterday afternoon in the London Docks looking
in a cow-house containing some foreign birds, and he made
remarks as he passed respecting the beauty of the birds.
He went on his way a short distance and then watched the

prisoner, and saw him go to a stack of Australian wool
under a shed, cut open a bag, and take somo wool out,
which he stuffed up his back, about his legs and arms,
and in the front of his person. He rushed upon the prisoner
and took him into custody., He took 21b. of wool from the
prisoner.

The prisoner said he was a most unfortunate man. Ho
met with an accident, both his legs were smashed, and he
was in the St. Bartholomew's Hospital for six months. He
was in great poverty with a wife and family to keep, and
he did take a little wool for the purpose of selling, to pur-
chase bread for his family.
Edward Ellis, a dock constable, said the prisoner was
an old thief, and he believed his statement to be a pure
invention, ;The prisoner had been summarily convicted
five times for stealing wool, sugar, currants, indigo, and
other things in the dock. One conviction and a fine of 40s.
was for stealing 2ilb. of sugar, and the last ono month's
imprisonment for stealing 51bs. of currants.
Mr. Partridge said valuable property and merchandise
was necessarily exposed in the docks, and that the pri-
soner appeared to be a common thief. He sentenced•him
to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. The next
time the prisoner was before him, and a charge made out,
he should commit the prisoner for trial.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

3111 es Opened. Reoeipts.

1865 1864
4
Belfast and N. Counties D
,£
136 136 2Z
Belfast and County own._ 49 49 89709 9
7 1.960
Blyth and Tyne ............. . 28 28 2, 23 .2,25 i
Bristol and Exeter........... 1211 1211 6,914 6,781
-
Caledonian
Cambrian
Cock ermouth K & Penrl .......th . -
...
314 01 8* 1,94346 1,477
3 -
Cockermouth and Workin .. • 9 9 317 3.55
Cork and Bandon . . .......... 20 20 401 397
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage... 61 f 4 276 124
Cork and Youghal .......... 3 4 32/ 514 552
Cornwall 651 654 1,805 1.9.8
Deeside , 17 17 531 44,
Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 63 1,331 1.365
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,110 1.85'3
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Weald lO7l 914 4,341 3 522
Forth and Clyde Junction .. 30 30 322 201
Furness, &c 5O 5 i 3,202 3 571
Glasgow & South-Western • ▪ 198 198 10,163 9,285
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern .. .. - .....
Great North of Soo. tla.n. d 99 99 3,060 3.251
(31 t. Nor thn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7l 711 479 535
lt.Southn. & Westn.arind.) 3874 8874 9,62/ 7.418
Great Western ▪ 1280 1235 72.836 72,767
Hull & R0rn5ea"........' . 3 - 222
1 -
Inverness & Aberdeen June ll7l 1171 1,448 2,071
Inverness & Perth Junction 1194 1191 1,927 1,870
Irish North-Western..,,. . 145 145 1,793 1.759
.. Kent Coast . .•, ~ . .„. ..... 27 27 2,520 2,400
Lancashire& Yorkahlre...... 403 103 44,554 41,470
Limerick and Ennis-- ..... 241 125 183
Limerick and Foynes ....... . 261 223 82 83
Llanelly .. . .................. 461 461 799 757
Llynvi Valley ... 2O 20 342 21
London & North-Western... 12731 12524 119, ilsl 115,647
London and Blackwall ....... 51 1 2.'40 2,. 79
London & South-Western ... 4901 4511 30.011 28.261
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast .. 272 2071 23 302 21.435
London, Chatham, & Dover., 724 724 7,599 7.516 Do. Metropolitan _Extension 11/ 101 2,8;0 2, 5 )
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend .. 414 42i 2,552 2,343
lian..Slieffield,&Lincolnsh .. 24:1 2121 19,712 18,334
3 9
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrich 0 91 1,537 1,
k[aryport and Carlisle...... 28 28 1,483 1,475
Metropolitan
Midland cincl. N.-Western) 563,
1 641 18,325 (,911
Midland (3 t. Westn. of Irind 262 262 5.251 5,054
Monkland 'll4 711 1538 1,7,3
llonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal., 44
44 2,891 2,28
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1110 1095 69,009 65 865
North London 9 9 3,133 3,476
North Staffordshire 26 258 8,427 9.319
Rhymney l9l. 191 1,114 3,330
Scottish Central
!Pi 1131 5,788 6,01
Scottish North-Eastern lOB 138 5,701 5, ii,t
Somerset and Dorset 66 •05 977 825
South Devon
~,,791 751 4.322 3,994
South-Eastern ...u8 306 26,238 2,390
Taff Vale 6 67 6,22 ) 4,962
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 461 204
269
Waterford and Limerick 77
77 1,471 965
West Cornwall 271 274
824 9.3
W.llaztlepool liarbr.& Bail-
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
763 '
Wh 13 10 51.: itehaven Junction l3 599 100 t
IV hitehaven & I urnessJun 35
35 783 1.,001
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 3',720 30,601
Bahia and San Francisco .• • • 761 704
Belgian Eastern J unction 2)O 8 5 420
4 61 1-2 336
Bombay, 3(
Ilaroda,
& Cen. India 0 12854 4,8583 2,650
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 185 6,996 4,340
Dutch Rhenish IPS! 1181 6,19 i 6,361
l6astarn 01 Franco
1;0150 100111 3,267
3'llB
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada
1:.77 1431 26 413 2:;,018
:-
Great Central of Belgium 45 2 6,435
~
2
Great Indian Peninsula 5-u 5531 21,412 13,130
Great Luxembourg 134 131 5,215 4.5.0
Great Southern of India
542 183
Great Western of Canada 335 . 195 11,050 0,317
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Aiicant 6B ) 650 16,472 20 307
Northern of Canaan, ... .....
Northern of France...., '72B 91 2,5'5 '2,4 2 724 68,193 54,618
Norwegian Trunk
Ottomra
- -
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1957 1781 137,' 87 133.551
Paris and Orleans MO 1611 6
,9J3 63.061
Recife and San Francisco. &C. 771 74
1,418 823
Sends lOO 105 Do. Punjab, 1,101 1,781
32 etc, 32 102 550
South Austrian, &c .. • . 2296 1527 78,002 53,755
Southern of France 823 770 27,833 26,987
251 106 Victoria
25 2s - -
Welland.
332 632
West & N-Wn. of France
....,-.....--

1865. 1864.

THE OIL WELLS.—It is estimated that upwards
of 9,000 steam-engines, for oil Wells and other purposes,
have passed over the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad
into Pennsylvania "Oildom." The engine-builders have
certainly "struck iie."-111i$eaum Democrat.

DETERMINED ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—AIen
Beggley, a creditable looking married woman, about 28
years of age, was charged with the following attempt at
suicide.

At about a quarter-past 4on Thursday morning Sergeant
Purches, 10 B, was proceeding through Jew's-row, Chel-
sea, where, in consequence of a conversation he heard, he
went to No. 4, Wood's-buildings, and, having insisted upon
entering the house, proceeded to an upstairs apartment,
where he found the prisoner lying upon a bed about to fall
into a sleep from which, but for the care and attention of
Sergeant Purches, she might never have awoke. Having
been informed by her sister that she had taken no less than

six pennyworths of laudanum, he immediately had her
thoroughly aroused and walked to the station, while he
sent for the divisional surgeon. In the interim the
sergeant gave her a large quantity of mustard an I water,
which, with her being kept in motion in the police yard,
acted as a strong emetic. 'After this she was conveyed to
S 4. George's Hospital, where she has remained until this
morning, when she was considered well enough to be
brought before the magistrate. In the prisoner's room,
a phial, which had contained laudanum, was found con-
cealed in tho fireplace.