The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

'FOREIGN COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.

Letters from St. Petersburgh have been received yes-
terday to the 16th inst., but they contain no political
intelligence. Business was very active, and the great
exertions made for the dispatch of goods had caused
freights to rise to double their usual rate.
Advices from Vienna mention that the subscriptions
received for the new Austrian Discount Bank, on the
first day of opening the lists, amounted to 450,000/.
The total capital of the bank is to be 500,0001., with
power to increase it to 1,000,0001.
The bar silver brought by the last West India steamer
has been sold yesterday at 61Id. per ounce, which is a
decline of Id. Dollars maintain their price. ' •
Some bonds of the Brunswick and Florida Railway
Company, of Georgia, in the United States, are under-
stood to have been offered for sale, the principal and in-
terest of which are stated on the bonds to be payable at
the banking house of Messrs. Coutts and Co. Upon
inquiry at that house, however, it is found that they
have never given their sanction to their names being
used in this way, and that they are entirely ignorant of
such bonds being in existence.

Misconception has been caused by a statement re-
cently published, that the Turkish Government has bor-
rowed 400,0001. from the'Oriental Bank. This is a local
establishment at Constantinople, and not the Oriental
Bank Corporation of London, whose business is with
India, China, Ceylon, and Australia.

CONVICTION OF A MAN AND TWO WOMEN
POE MURDER.

The High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, was
occupied on Thursday with the trial of a man named
Hans Smith Macfarlane and three women, Helen Black-
wood, Mary Hamilton, and Ann Marshall or Young, all
from Glasgow, who were charged with murder and rob-
bery in a house in that city, on the morning of Sun-
day, the 12th of June last. The victim was Alexander
Boyd, a
.ship-carpenter, who; with an acquaintance
named James Law, were enticed in a state of intoxica-
tion late in the evening by some women into a house in
the New Vennel. The chief witness was a boy eleven
years of age, named William Shillinglaw, who said—
My brother James, 'who is going terryears of age, and I
slept on the night in question in the house in the ,:isJew
Vennel, occupied by Hans Smith Macfarlane and
Helen Blackwood. We went to bed about nine
o'clock. We• crept under the. bed as usual, and fell
asleep. I awoke during the night and saw Mary
Hamilton and a than named Law (the companion
of Boyd, the murdered than). • He appeared to be
drunk. In about five minutes afterwards, Helen
Blackwood, Ann Marshall. and Macfarlane en-
tered with the man (Boyd) that was killed. He was
drunk. Helen Blackwood asked him for money to get
some whisky, which he gave to her, and she brought in
whisky in a jug, and it was poured into a cup. The
whisky. was handed round, and all the company drank
of it. I saw the man Boyd drink some of it ; but be-
fore he got it, Mary Hamilton took a paper of snuff out
of her pocket and put it into the cup among the whisky,
which she then handed to Boyd, who drank all that was
in the cup, and then he lay gasping. He appeared to
get sick from it and stupid... He rose up, and I saw him
attempt to strike Helen Blackwood. • She was standing
near the bed. . She lifted up the chamber-pot, and struck
him on the side of the head with' it. When the man got
the blow, he fell back all his length. His head came
on a stone which was used for 'a stool. Helen Black-
wood and Atm Marshall said to Macfarlane, " Oh,
-what'll we do wi' him ? " 'The man Boyd had his
clothes on. Macfarlane said, "Nobody will see, haiv
him over the window." Before Macfarlane said this the
man's clothes had.been taken off. The woman Blackwood
proposed to take them off. She said to Ann Marshall,
"Let us strip him." 'They then stripped him, and Black-
wood took out of his pocket a handful of money. The
man appeared to be quite unable to resist. Helen Black-
wood took one of the arms of the man, Ann Marshall
the feet, the man Macfarlane the other arm, and Mary
Hamilton looked on. They " hove" him over the win-
dow, The head went. forethost. I heard a fall on the
ground. The 'man did not resist in any way. Mary
Hamilton made no resistance to what was going on, and
said nothing.. She was standing with her baalt•to where
I was. She may have lent a hand without me seeing it.
She was close to the man. Ann Marshall (continued
the boy) threw over the window. .the pieceA of the:pot
that had been broken. The man Law was lying all the
time asleep across the fire-place. • I afterwards heard a
great noise outside, and the police entered and took my
brother and me; with the man Law, to the police-office,
where I. saw' the dead body' of the *man Boyd. I was
under the bed when I saw all these things, but I could
see quite well. The brother of the preceding witness
gave similar evidence. Two girls, who had witnessed the
proceedings in the house through the chinks of the door,
gave some corroborative testimony, one of them having
besides overheard the woman Blackwood say to Mary
Hamilton as the party ascended the• stairs, "It is a good
chance." They also witnessed the drugging of the
whisky, and heard the man Macfarlane say, " What'll
we do with the b—." Some one replying, "It's
dark, we'll fling him over the window." The deceased
was lifted by the police, apparently dead,- immediately
below the window of Macfarlane's house. No exculpa-
tory evidence was led, but the prisoners in their decla-
ration alleged that the deceased had gone to the window
for a natural purpose, and had fallen over. After coun-
sel had addressed the jury, the Lord Justice-General
summed up the evidence, when the jury returned a ver-
dict finding the man Macfarlane and Helen Blackwood
and Ann Marshall or Young guilty, but recommending
the latter female to mercy. The .charge' against Mary
Hamilton was found not proven, and She was dßrnissed:
Afte4 an impressive address from the presiding judge,
the three firttnamed prisoners Were sentenced to be exe-
cuted at Glasgow on Thursday, the 11th of August.

~FALNOUTiIi- July 20.—The relaxation of the Naviga-
tion-laws, and. its results of free-trade intercourse, have
been strongly .demonstrated by. the#advent at' this port,
in the past three'days, of no less than 135 .vessels of all
nations from, every part of the world, independently, too,
of such ships as received orders for ulterior destinations
outside, from the agents of the • consignees, - and ':pro-
ceed4l-without dropping their anchors. • At the present
moment there is in Carrick Roads and the inner hai-•
bour ‘,s, fleet of no less than 149 vessels awaiting their
destination, and they embrace as the following list exhi-
bits, 21 different flags, viz. ;—English, 47 ; Greek, 7 ;'
Hanciveriam, 2 ; Dutch, 7.; lonian, 1 ; Maltese, 1
Sardinian, 12 ; Norwegian, 13 ; Neapolitan, 4;
trian, .14;` French, 5 ; Hamburg, 2•• Swedish, 7';
Prussian, ; Russian, 8 ; Danish, 3 ; Rimnan, 1 ;
1 ; American, 1 ; Mecklenburg, •2 ; and
Spanish, 5.

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The city of Bologna wao the
scene of a horrid tragedy on the 10th. Several large
drops of blood under the windows of a well-known 'gen-
tleman, named Dr. Accusi, roused the attention of some
people,•as it .seerned as if those drops must have fallen
from some • wounded person who had gone to the win-
dow.
.'Ceies,• groans, and huttentations • being also
heard :tojssue from the Same house, the police were
called; who .after. repeated .summonses to open, which
were disregarded, had to force open the outer and some
inner doors, when a frightful spectacle presented itself
to their view. , .AccUssi and his maid-servant were
fOund lying dead in one room, both evidently murdered ;
while iu the, next lay Dr. Giuseppe Salvi, Dr. Actussi's
nephew, who from a sharp surgical instrument in his
hand, was conjectured to have been the murderer of
the other two, and to have afterwards committed suicide,
to avoid being arrested. The cause of this melancholy
event is attributable to family dissensions, but nothing
certain bas As yet been elleited.—Galignaiii.
THE TELEGRAPH IN SPAIN.—The Madrid Gazette
p ~blishes a Royal order to the director of the tele-
graphs to proceed immediately to a general survey, with
a view to the establishment of electric telegraphic wires
throughout the kingdom. ,
GENERAL SIR :JOSEPH THACKIttELL, G. C. B.—This
distinguished oMeer arrived in ouiv(Cork) harbour yes-)
terday, per the Sabrina. As' tho steamer passed along,
the coast, bonfires blazed on the hills, at - Roche's
Tower, Light-house, and Carlisl4 Fort. The detach.
ment of the 39th Regiment, Which served with the
gallant General in India, assembled on•the ramparts of
Carlisle Fort, the flag was lowered as he passed, and the
people cheered enthusiastically-. At Queenstown the
ships, dressed out in their flags, looked gay and beauti-
ful. On the steamer's approach, the Admiral's barge shot
alongside, under command of the flag-lieutenant, and
-took Sir Joseph en board. As he left the steamer the
crew and passengers gave several hearty cheers, 'which
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he duly acknowledged, and on' reaching the Admiral's
yacht it immediately steered for Whitegate, from whence
he proceeded to Captain Roche's of Ballyinonis:
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Tmhbeledreiand leadinglargenumtbeersc taoptgaiivee a cordialTh
was lined with laurel branches and spanned withg tri-
umphal arches. In the evening tar-barrels were burned
aircl the village illuminated looked gay and
well from the
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l r.NEW CHURCH NEAI HOLTWELL.
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—A
new church, designed to supply the place of one
erected some time since by Lord Fld •
and afterwards alienated from the Esetabillisgl' at Pantasa,
unent on his
conversion to the. Church of Rome, Vas consecrated on
Monday by the .13i4hop of St. Asaph.