The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-28 00:00:00

ILLINOIS CENTRAL.

The financial statement of this company for the
month of July shows th at 7,144 acres of land had been
sold during the month for $84,157. The cash col-
lected in July amounted to $106,347. In the rail-
way traffic department the total receipts for the
month of July amounted to $531,996, and for the
same month last year to $403,838, showing an in-
crease of $128,158, or 31.7 per cent.

WEST LONDON WHARVES AND WAREHOUSES,

The report of the directors states that the Royal
assent was given on the sth of July last to the Act
of Parliament which was approved by special general
meeting, held on the 16th of June, and which con-
ferred considerable advantages upon the company.
The directors had concluded an agreement with the
Southwark and 'Vauxhall Water Company for the
absolute purchase of a slip of land, together with the
parts included in their Parliamentary powers, which
enable the company to acquire a total extent of
direct river frontage, exceeding 1,700 feet, which
they could not otherwise have obtained. This pur-
chase xould actually put the company in possession
of a large extent of wharfage property already made,
and the directors purposed at once placing cranes
along the frontage, erecting warehouses in the im-
mediate vicinity, and laying down tramways to con-
nect them and the wharves with the adjoining rail-
ways, by which means they anticipated that the
company would, in less than 12 months from this
time, be in full working order, and trusted in receipt
of a considerable revenue. Beyond this the com-
pany's land, which the directors believed to be of
great value, remained intact, and, in lieu of being
in any manner depreciated, would be considerably
enhanced in value and available at any time, when
the business carried on might require additional ac-
commodation. The directors trusted that those
arrangements would receive the full approval and
support of the shareholders. The 7 per cent. guaran-
teed interest on the capital called up would be paid
on the 30th of September. The capital account
showed that £86,327 had been expended, leaving a
balance in hand of £23,137.

Another Murder of a Sweetheart and
Attempted Suicide.

Wolverhampton has again been the scene of a very
dreadful crime. The perpetrator of it is a mere lad of 18,
named Charles Christopher Robinson, an orphan, whose
father, a blacksmith and coal dealer, had left him a pro-
perty worth about £4,000. lie lived with his guardian,
Mr. Josiah Fisher. 110 hail been apprenticed a few years
ago to a cabinet-maker, but he had shown no fondness for
the business, and had not served out his time, justifying his
conduct by saying that he should have money enough to
keep him. He had latterly become engaged to a young
woman named Harriet Seagar, a sister of Mrs. Isaiah
Fisher, whose husband, a son of his guardian's, kept%
public-house called the Queen's Arms. She was a few
months older than her lover. There was no objection what-
ever to the connexion; on the contrary, Mr. Josiah Fisher
had taken her into the house as a kind of servant, but she
was treated as one of the family.
On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Fisher, with Mrs.
Isaiah Fisher, left home at about three o'clock to go to
Codsall. At that time Robinson was in the garden behind
the house smoking, and Miss Seagar was engaged about hor
domestic duties. Excepting these two no one was left at
the house. At about four o'clock a girl named Emma Sil-
leto, aged 15, and servant at the Queen's Arms, was near to
the back door of the residence of Mr. Josiah Fisher, when
she saw Miss Seagar crying, and Robinson was near her.
The impression left on Silleto's mind was that they had been
quarrelling. In about an hour afterwards Robinson went to
the Queen's Arms, borrowed a knife-board for Miss Seagar's
use, and with it took away half a pint of ale. Half an hour
afterwards Silleto sent one of her master's children for the
board, and the messenger, a boy, was told by Robinson that
it was not done with, and that he must come again. Some
time after five o'clock Silleto herself went for the board.
Miss Seagar stood using it in the back kitchen. She was
still crying, and Robinson was standing at the entrance to
the kitchen. Miss Seagar threw out the board, and Robinson
either kicked or threw it to Silleto, who went away with
it. At a little before six Silleto heard a gun fired in Mr.
Josiah Fisher's house, and in a few minutes one of Mr.
Isaiah Fisher's children ran in from the garden which
separates the two houses, and cried out that Charles had
shut Harriet. Silleto ran across the garden and saw
Robinson come down stairs and enter the back kitchen. On
looking through the window of the back kitchen she saw
him standing without his coat, in front of a small mirror
that was hanging against the wall. Whilst looking into the
mirror he held a razor in his right hand and cut, Silleto
says, three gashes in his throat. She raised an alarm, and
when neighbours came in they found him standing in a
leaning posture outside the back kitchen, his eyes
glaring, and his clothes stained with blood that had
been and was still flowing- from wounds in Lis throat.
An attempt was made to secure him, but lie became very
violent and tried hard to tear open the wounds described.
With some difficulty he was overpowered, and his hands
fastened behind him. Whilst this was go' ino- On neigh-
hours had entered the back-kitchen,and found Miss Seagar
lifeless on the floor. Death hadbeen occasionedby a hideous
cut in the throat, which, passing through the windpipe and
all the arteries, extended right to the spine. She was sur-
rounded with blood, and upon her head being raised, the
last breath of life seemed to depart.
Robinson's wounds were temporarily bandaged with the
apron of a woman who came in, and he was led into an
inner room. Here his injuries were attended to by Mr.
Summers and Mr. Vincent Jackson, surgeons. After