The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN.

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LONDON AND 601:MI-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 28, 1854 213,083 11 3
Corresponding week last year 12,841 8 2

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Increase in 1854 £242 3 1
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.--
Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 28,
1854 £9,147 7 8
Corresponding week last year 9,128 11 4
Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 34,921 10 10
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 35,022 5 9

Daniel Fitzgerald, who was brought from the gaol to
give his evidence, having been committed by the magis-
trate for the purpose of securing his attendance, deposed
that he lodged at the house of the prisoner Chapman,
and he knew the deceased, and remembered his being
very ill, and dying in the house. On the 12th October,
witness and both the prisoners went to the office of a
solicitor at Woolwich, and showed him a paper which
was supposed to be a will made by the deceased. The
solicitor looked at it, and said it would not do, as it was
incorrectly drawn up, and he gave them a form to be filled
up, marking the places where the signatures of the wit-
nesses and the mark of the testator were to be placed.
On their return home with this paper, they went into
the tap-room of a public-house, where they drank two
half-pints of rum, and the prisoner, Mary Chapman,
said that as the will had to get back that night, they
might as well do it at once, and he Higgins put their
names and addresses to the paper. When they had
signed it, Mrs. Chapman said they might as well put
the old man's mark to it, and Higgins stooped down to
the table, and was in the attitude of writing, but he did
not see him put a mark to the paper. When this had
been done they all three went to the garret where the
deceased was lying in bed, quite speechless, and appa-
rently insensible. A pen was put into his hand, and
Mrs. Chapman laid hold of his wrist and guided it, and
she then said, " There now he has made his mark, and
you will tell no lie about it." The deceased at this time
did not appear to know anything of what was going on,
and the paper was never read to him. He was unable
to speak, and on the following morning he died. The
prisoner, Mary Chapman, promised to give him a new
suit of clothes and three sovereigns when the affair was
settled. but she did not do so, and upon a (laughter of
the deceased coming forward to claim his property he
told all that had happened.
Cross-examined—Witness was present when the first
paper was executed or pretended to be executed. The
ADVERTISEMENT.I—A LIEUTENANT OF DRAGOONS
deceased was in the same state, and witness held I • E
up in bed by one band, and Mrs. Chapman laid acrossiini AND P LLS This officer, who is in the Dutch army,
ED OF RHEUMATISM BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT
the bed behind him to support him. Higgins held the states Lat 'Holloway's Pills and Ointment have cured
paper to him, and put a pen in his band and a pair of him of rheumatism, which appeared to be incurable, as
spectacles on his nose. The old man did not seem to neithersea-bathing,vapour-baths,norpreparations vaunted
takingwa itthheostei tvisliltsc
know at all what he was about. He held the pen in as sure remedies, did him any good, and the treatment cf
enced
his fist like a stick, and dropped it down upon the paper
and blotted it. He did not make any mark, and seemed
not to know how to make one. He appeared to be day,which effectually cured him in the car
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hem oonotrhosm'
and rubbing the Ointment into the complaining psearots;
quite faint, and Higgins took the pen and paper from sixtwice w The truth of this statement can be vouched for
him. They all signed their names to this paper, as they 7 B. Stratman, of Bois-le-Duc.--Sold by all drug-
had done to the other. After the deceased died, his grsts; and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244,
clothes were searched, and a half-sovereign and some ktre aid, London.

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Jan. 22, 1854 £18,331 14 5
Corresponding week last year 13,055 0 1

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 29, 1851. £17,935 15 4
Corresponding week last year 17,119 10 3
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Jan. 29, 1854 £3,857 0 9
Corresponding week last year 3,062 18 9

Increase in 1854 ............................ . . £794 2 0
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Traffio re
turn for the week ending J. 28, 185'4 ......... 24,388 7
Corresponding week last year
..................... 3,928 12 11
Decrease in 1854

£459 11 8

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 1..
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market opened quietly at the
rates of yesterday, but subsequently improved, and closed
at an advance. Chester and Birkenhead, 15 ; East Lan-
cashire, 15g ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 62i ; Ditto (West
Riding Union), sd. ; London and North-Western, 1001 ;
Ditto (4 shares), g d ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
214 ' • Midland, 64 1 North British, 7i ; South-Eastern
and Dover, 17Z ; Dutch Rhenish, 3A d.