The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL HIGH LEVEL.

A novel plan is proposed for the construction of a
high level railway for goods and passenger traffic in con-
nexion with the Liverpool Docks, running four miles
along the river frontage, 20 feet above ground, on iron
columns, and uniting with the various railways having
their termini in Liverpool. Four line of rails are pro-
posed, and the railway, warehouse cranes, and other re-
quirements may, it is calculated, be constructed for about
1,000,000/.

GREAT WESTERN AND SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—
The Parliamentary notices in respect to these companies
do not disclose the precise relations intended, nor the

terms under which the valuable assistance of the one is
to he accorded to the other. These are not yet defini-
tively arranged. The more rapid completion of the
works is the chief object aimed at, so that the capital
already expended may be brought to a profitable bearing
as early as possible. We doubt not the two parties will
therefore speedily place themselves in a position by
which both may be benefited without detraction to the
interests of either.—Railway
GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA RAILWAY.—The reports,
to be found in another column, of Mr. W. Chapman, the
secretary, and of Sir Cusack Roney, the managing di-
rector, will he read with peculiar interest. After so
much discussion as has recently taken place on the merits
of the undertaking, and the conduct of the directors in
reference to the Great Western of Canada, the official
reports will be very acceptable. The works are re-
ported to be proceeding well, the prospects of a remu-
nerative dividend are shown to be good, and on the
question of the "aggressive" policy of the company,
Sir Cusack has the following paragraph, the tone
' of which does not certainly in the least degree indi-
cate the insane animosity some time ago imputed to the
management. " The question that has arisen between
this company and the Great Western is one which the
directors deeply regret. No act of aggression was ever
committed or contemplated by the company ; and the
directors can with confidence refer the proprietors to the
statement which they have lately laid before the public.
The matter may now be considered to be in course of
arrangement, as it is understood the representatives of
both companies will agree, if necessary, to leave all
matters of difference to the decision of Mr. Robert
We have every reason for believing that
Stephenson.
the charge of the Great Western was a mistake."---
Berapath's Journal.
THE EASTERN UNION AND THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.-- The Ipswich, Express states the nature of the
I arrangement which has been agreed upon by these com.
panies. The directors of the Eastern Union have con-
sented to accept a seventh of the gross receipts of the
two railways, subject to a reduction of 461, per cent, for
expenses. The stock of engines, carriages, &c,, of the
Eastern Union is to be taken by the Eastern Counties
at a valuation, consequently the whole line will be worked
by that company. It is calculated that by this agree-
ment the ordinary shareholders of the ny
comp . who
have for years received no dividend, will have for the
future lf. per cent. upon their investments. A similar
proposition of one-seventh of the receipts has been made
to the Norfolk Company, and will probably ac
cepted.
When acce ted.
When these arrangements are completed, it is to be pre-
sumed that a complete amalgamation of companies will
follow.

NORTH METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.--This company has
given notice of application to Parliament in the ensuing
session for power to abandon the portion of the autho-
rised line west of a point opposite St. James's Church,
Paddington, and, in lieu thereof, to extend the railway
from St. James's Church to the south end of Eastbourne-
terrace. Also, to make a branch near Praed-street and
Sale-street to the Great Western Railway, near the
Paddington station. It is also intended to apply for
power to extend the authorised line from Battle-bridge
to the General Post-office, and to make branches to the
London and North Western and Great Northern Rail-
ways, to appropriate portions of burial grounds near the
site of the intended railway, and to divert sewers, drains,
&c., with power to purchase land and other property for
stations, and to authorise the Great Western Railway
Company to subscribe towards the undertaking. It 18
intended to ask for power to make traffic arranzem.ents
with the North London, the London and North
Wester*,
the the Eastern Counties, the Great Northern, an
companies, to raise a further sum of
3nleety;opo Titan
and to
change the name of the company to the
Railway Company."

•
ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON THE NORWICH LINE. —On
Saturday night, a train from Norwich, containing
several uundred passengers, met with an accident about
a mile and a half before arriving at the Forneett station,
by the hreaking of the engine. Great consternation was
created among the passengers by the fact being coin.
municated that a cattle train was in the rear. The
dreadful effects of the late accident on the Dublin line
came vividly to their minds, and they all got out of the
train and escaped to the top of the embankment. Here
they remained a considerable time, but by the prompt
measures taken by the guard and officer!,
, the cattle
train was prevented from approaching, thereby' avoiding
a collision. .. .. .
PRODUCTION OF COTTON IN PARAGUAY.- --In the be-
ginning of the present year Mr. GeorgeW. Drabble went
out to the South Americanpr
the provinces, carrying with him
letters procured by the Manchester Commercial Asso-
ciation, and charged with duty of ascertaining the
capabilities of that part of the world for the prodnction
of cotton, as specimens from Tucuwan, one of the in-
terior provinces, were last year shown in Manchester,
and reported upon favourably. It seems, by a letter
received :from Mr,
.Drabble, that there is abundant fa-
cility for the
extension
of the growth of a good staple
of cotton, but that the
want of labour will be a great
though obstacle in the way, even -that difficulty, Under
the superintendence of an active man, might be over-
COMO.

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THE DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER IN
LAMBETH.

Yesterday Philip Grinney, a coach wheelwright, who
has been in custody since the 24th of last month on a
charge of having attempted to take the life of his wife,
Hannah, by cutting her throat, was placed at the Lam-
beth police bar, before the Hon. G. C. Norton, for anal
examination.
Mr. Solomon attended on behalf of the accused.
The first witness called was Mr. John Penfold Morris,
a pupil and house surgeon at Guy's Hospital, who de-
posed that on the morning of Monday, the 24th of last
month, Mrs. Hannah Grinney was brought to that hos-
pital. On examining her he found a wound of about
four or five inches in length across the front of her
throat. There were also two other wounds, one in an
upward and another in a downward direction, and all
could not have been inflicted with one cut. They were
incised wounds, but did not appear to have been in-
' flitted with a very sharp instrument, as the edges were
somewhat jagged. A small quantity of blood was oozing
from one of her ears, and there was a slight contusion
on one of her cheeks, but both those injuries might
have been caused by a fall or a blow. Both her hands
were severely wounded, particularly the right hand,
which had not yet got well, and she would lose the use
altogether of one of her fingers on that hand. She re-
mained under his (witness's) care from that time to the
present, and at no time was her life in danger.
The prisoner's unfortunate victim, who
who
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brought from the hospital in a cab, and
very respecthble, good-looking, and matronly female,
about 36 years of age, was here sworn and deposed as
follows :—I am the wife of the prisoner, and at the
time of this unfortunate transaction lived with him and
my children at. No. 35, Park-street, Bennington-cross.
On the night of Sunday, the 23rd of October (my hus-
band has on many other occasions made use of violent
threats towards me), when going up stairs to bed he
told me that my time was short, and that I had better
prepare myself. We went to bed, and at about two in
the morning we were aroused by a knocking at the door,
and we learned from my daughter, who slept down
stairs, that the parties knocking were a young man in
the service of my brother, and Henry Lee, who wished
to come in and lie down for a short time. My daughter
got up, and my husband took a bed down stairs to Lee
and the other young man, and both lay down, but were
called and let out of the house by my husband at four
o'clock on the same morning. On returning up stairs,
I observed my husband go to where his trousers were,
and observed him do something to the pockets, but his
back being towards me I could not distinctly see
what. He then came into bed, mid I distinctly
heard him say " It's too early yet '• " and from his
manner and conduct altogether I felt alarmed, and had
a great desire for the time to get up. Having to go to
my sister's that morning, I got up soon after six, and
went downstairs, leaving my husband in the bedroom.
He came downstairs and joined me in the back room,
and while I was dressing I called out to him and asked
what o'clock it was, and he replied " It's close upon
seven, my dear," and came close to me on my left side.
I was in the act of putting my brooch into the front of
my dress, when my husband, who had his right hand in
his trousers pocket, pulled out a black-lrandled table.
knife, and exclaiming "Now is the time" (uttering an
opprobrious epithet), and instantly grasped me by the
back of the neck with his left hand, commenced cutting
my throat. He gave me one cut before I could protect
myself, and inflicted the larger wound in the upper and
front part of my throat. I raised my hands to protect
myself, and having got hold of the knife by the blade,
succeeded in getting it out of his hand, and threw it
away. He then laid hold of me by the hair and dragged
me across the room into the passage, and forced me on
the ground. He here drew a second knife from his
pocket—the same trousers pocket from which he had
taken the first, and again commenced cutting at my
throat. He endeavoured to cut me on the left
side downwards, but I struggled very violently with
him, and called to my daughter to open the par-
lour window and cry out for assistance, as my hus-
band had secured the door. I was fortunately enabled
to defend myself by putting my hands up, and thus pre-
vented my throat from being cut. As my daughter
Was passing us to get into the parlour, my husband
made a desperate thrust at her back with the point of
the knife, and if she had not fortunately stumbled at the
instant the knife must have gone through her, as she
had nothing on at the time but her chemise, and when
he saw her open the window, he exclaimed in a savage
manner, "I'll pay you for this." I here, by great exer-
tion, succeeded in getting the secondknife from my
husband ; but in accomplishing this I received some
severe cuts on my hands, and threw it away also. I
threw it into the passage. When deprived of this knife
my husband forced the tops of his fingers into my
throat, and not only endeavoured, but succeeded, in
tearing them larger. My husband by some means got
a third knife, and having succeeded in dragging me into
the front parlour, and dragging my head towards the
cupboard, must have, in my then exhausted state, suc-
ceeded in cutting my throat, had not as-istance at that
moment arrived and released me from him. I then ran
out as far as the front gate, and have no recollection
whatever of what occurred until I found myself in the
hospital.
Mr. Norton —What sort of knives were these ?
Witness—Black-haadled table knives.
Mr. Norton—Where were they kept ?
Witness—ln a table drawer in the back parlour.
Mr. NorZ.on—Had your husband an opportunity
of going to the place where they were kept on that
morning ?
Witness—Oh yes, sir, he had an opportunity of going
there when he went down stairs to call Lee and the
young man, and let them out.
Mr. Norton--Can you say where your husband got
the third knife ?
Witness—No, sir. My opinion was that he might
have picked up the knife just took from him, but it ap-
pears that three had been used.
The officer engaged in the case here produced three
black-handled dinner-knives, each of which was deeply
tinged and covered with gore.
Mr. Norton (to Mrs. Grinney)—Had any other con-
versation passed between your husband and yourself
than you have stated on the morning of this desperate
attack on you ?

Mrs. Grinney—Yes ; I recollected his asking me if
the youth Tom and Lee were not in the front room ;
and I said, "Why Philip, you must he foolish to
talk so. You know you let them out at four o'clock."
He then said, "We are all alone now." And I re.
plied, " Well, there are as many as are wanted ' • there
are you and I and our three children." Immediately
upon this it was that he said, "Now is the time, you
—," and commenced the attack on me. The witness
here went into a lengthened statement of the conduct of
her husband towards her, produced in a great measure,
as it appeared, from his jealousy not only of Lee, but
her own brother. On one occasion, when the prisoner
was accompanying her to the house of her br.,ther,
the neighbourhood of Soho-square, and while passing
along Earl-street, Seven Dials, ho asked her to accom•
pany him to a brothel, and on her refusing to do so, and
expressing her disgust at his conduct, he said it was
quite clear to him that her brother, Lee, or somebody
else had had that which he should have had. He had
also declared he should take the life of her brother, and
should also have his revenge of Lee ; that he had pur-
chased powder and balls some time ago, and had priced
a pistol. In conclusion the witness said that there was
only one thing which she regretted, and that was not
having had her husband taken up 16 months ago, when
he stabbed her in the head with a pocket knife.
The prisoner's daughter corroborated much of the tes-
timony of her mother; and the two men Smith and Low,
who had fortunately come to the rescue of Mrs. Grinney
just in the nick of time, declaredtlaitwhen theynie in
inter-
feredf the prisoner was stabbing his wife with a knife
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any questions to the witnesses, or had any observation
to make.
Mr. Solomon replied not ; ho should merely-request
his worship to order the prisoner's furniture to be de-
livered up, so as to enable him to defend himself. The
man Lee, he said, who had more to do with the unfor-
tunate affair than it would be prudent to disclose, had
been dealing with the furniture, and removed it from
the prisoner's late residence.

Inspector Carter said that by desire of Mr. Elliott he
had made some inquiries on the subject, and found that
nearly the whole of it belonged to the prisoner's bro ther-
in-law.

The prisoner was then committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court.
There was one thing most remarkable in the proceed-
ings, and that was that during her lengthened examina-
tion Mrs. Grinney did not, from beginning to end, be-
tray the slightest emotion, and her daughter, a keen-
looking girl of 18, sat by her side all the time, and
appeared as if the dreadful details referred to the most
common-place affair ; and even the prisoner heard the
evidence with the utmost nonchalance.

POWDER MILL BLOWN UP.—FIDE MEN KILLED.—
A shocking accident occurred in Spencer on Friday. The.
powder mill of Lewis Bemis, known as the Corning
Mill, and situated about one mile from the village, wasi
blown up about half-past nine o'clock in the forenoon„
killing five men. The names of the kflled are Henry.
Avis, foreman, Englishman, 22 years old, no family
Richard Avis, his brother, 33 years old, had a wife and
one child ; Robert Perkins, Englishman, 30 years old,,
no family ; George Swallow, Englishman, 25 years old,
had a wife ; John Laflin, Irishman, teamster, 25 years
old, no family. He was blown into fragments. Three
were found under the mill in the water ; Swallow in a,
potato-field 40 rods from the mill, with one leg blown
off; and the other a short distance from the mill. Thera
was a horse and waggon close by the mill. The waggon
was blown into fragments, and the horse knocked down„
but not killed. There were 50 kegs of powder in the
mill. This is-the second trill of Mr. Bemis which has
been blown up within two montb.lo.—Siringftew (ma to
Rep abkara.