The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-20 00:00:00

rilE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, A UGUsT 20, 1847

Rico were sold for shipping ; the duty of 203 per cwt to
be allowed.

William Bristow, grocer, Marchmont-street, Bruns-
wick square, August 28, ahalf past eleven, and Oct. 4,
at half past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit-
more, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Weir and
Smith, Coopers'-hall, Basinghall street.
Thomas Pope, c,al merchant, Kidbrooke, Aug. 30, at
two, and Oct. 4, at half-past two, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Williamson and Co., Great James-street; Richardson
and Co., York.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

COFFEE.—This afternoon there was no public sale of
Ceylon Coffee, and privately little business was done,
whilst there were ready sellers at former rates. The
market for Foreign is quiet, and 3,943 bags of Rio at
public sale were only in part sold at rather lower rates,
good ordinary at 31s 6d to 325, and real good ordinary
32s 6d to 335. For auction 2,000 bags Costa Rica, 2,600
bags Plantation Ceylon, and 103 frazils of Mocha, are
declared,

OLD COURT.
THE MARYLEBONE MURDER.

Mary Ann Hurst, aged thirty, was indicted for the
wilful murder of Mary Stowell, on the 2nd of June
last. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
(Continued from our Third Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. CLARKSON then proceeded to a:ldress the jury on
behalf of the prisoner. He said he should lay evidence
before them to show that at the time the prisoner com-
mitted the offence imputed to her :he was in an irre-
sponsible state of mind, although he admitted that it
would not show that she was not a participator in or
an accessory to the murder. He complained that new
witnesses were brought forward, of whom neither him-
self or his Learned Friend had ever heard of before, and
with whom they were totally unprepared to grapple.
What was the value of the Act of Parliament which
stated that depositions should be taken in the presence of
the prisoner, that they should be sworn in his presence,
and that he should have a copy of them when he sought
them, if fresh witnesses were to be brought forward to
give testimony which the accused could not rebut ? Let
him remind them that the trial of the unfortunate
woman at the bar was postponed until the present session
on an affidavit which stated that the parties who made
it, believed that the unfortunate woman was insane.
The woman, Smallbone, of whom they had heard no-
thing until to-day, stated that the prisoner was seen by
her, at the door of the room, early in the evening of the
Tuesday ; but she had been presented, without affording
the prisoner an opportunity of rebutting her evidence,
and, possibly, of showing that she was elsewhere. Who
would believe that one of the protectors of their liberties
had been the assailant of two women, that he had
lived with the woman in the way stated ? He had been
put into the box merely for the purpose of undergoing
the ceremony of saying who he was, snd possibly by his
appearance indicating that he had no share in the murder.
Could any one put their finger on any part of the evi-
dence, and say that the prisoner committed the murder?
The evidence of the witness Smallbone assumed that the
murder was committed at the time the door was half
opened. What, committed in the light of day, and in a
house full of lodgers? It was improbable. Then he
dismissed the evidence with respect to the prisoner's
wish to get to Brighton, by saying that she had been
proved to have entertained the notion since the preceding
Christmas. There *•as no motive for the act—the gain
was nothing. He (Mr. Clarkson) confidently submitted
that the dreadful charge of having committed wilful and
deliberate murder was not proved against the prisoner
in so clear a manner as they could return a verdict which
would consign her to an ignominious death.
The following evidence was then adduced for the de-
fence :

—JohnHills, auctioneer, Billericay, Essex, Aug. 27, at
two, and Oct. 4, at half- past twelve, at tha Court of
Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin lane,
Skinner, Barnard's Inn.

TEA.-There has been less disposition evinced to pur-
chase the better sorts of Green, whereas merchants have
been more inclined to realise, and supplying the market
more freely, produced a decline in the value of 2d to
4d per lb for Ilyson and Gunpowders of good and fine
quality ; whilst Imperial is offered rather under previous
prices. The amount of business transacted by private
treaty has been upon a small scale only all the week.
The low and mid kinds, however, met with more atten-
tion, but holders, have been compelled to accept previous
low rates. Holders of Black still evince firmness, and
insist upon full quotations ; whilst they offer but a mo-
derate quantity for sale. The home trade, however,
purchase all descriptions with caution by private treaty.
To-day the Tea market had a quiet appearance, and of
3,800 packages offered at auction, only 900 were sold at
barely former rates.
Saco is little wanted, and 1,250 boxes at public sale
went at is per cwt decline, fine small Pearl went at
19s 6d to 20s, good 19s to 19s 6d, middling 18s to 18s
6d. The market is dull for Farina at 24s to 275.

—Edward Marshal Totterdell and John Gruchy, wool-
len drapers, Portsea, August 30, at one, and Oct. 4, at
half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Sole and Turner,
Aldermanbury.

William Armstrong, draper, Norwich, Aug. 31, at
half past one, and Sept. 25, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Wood
and Fraser, Dean-street, Soho.

Robert Peck. grocer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sept. 13,
at eleven, and Oct. 8, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, New-
castle-upon-Tyne; Sudlow, Sons, and Torr, Chancery-
lane, London; Wailes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
John Storey, rope manufacturer, Monk Wearmouth,
Sept. 13, at twelve, and Oct. 8, at one, at the New-
castle upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Wriohts, Sunderland ; Maples,
Pearse, Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's-place, Old
Jewry, London.
William Sampson, spirit merchant, Sheffield, Sept. 3,
and Oct. 1, at ten, at the Sheffield District Court. Free-
man, official assignee, Sheffield; Tattersall, Great James-
street, London; Broaobent, Sheffield; Blackburn, Leeds.
William Goodall, and Benjamin Hopkinson Bates,
coal-merchants, Halifax, Yorkshire, September 2 and
23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman,
official assignee, Leeds ; Gregory and Son, Lincoln's
Inn, London ; Pickup, Bradford ; Bond and Barwick,
Leeds.
John Reilly, grocer, Wolverhampton, Sept. 2 and 30,
at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie,
official assignee, Birmingham; Foster and Gough, Wol-
verhampton.
John Hillman, grocer, Worcester Aug. 31, at eleven,
and Sept. 28, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Finch,
Worcester; Motteram and Knowles, Birmingham.
Robert Wright Roberts, builder, Liverpool, Sept. 10
and Oct. 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Johnson and Co.,
Temple.; Grocott, Liverpool; Pemberton, Liverpool.
Robert Weston, music seller, Manchester, Aug. 30
and Sept. 21, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Vincent,
King's Beneh-walk, Inner Temple ; Simpson, Man-
chester.

RICE.—To-day little desire was shown to operate in
East India Rice : at public sale 977 pockets Bengal sold
at Is per cwt decline : fine white, bold grain, but ra-
ther dusty, went at 16s 6d, low siftings los 6d, and
damaged 7s to 15s 6d : of 1,758 bags 995 pockets Ma-
dras, the sound was all taken in at 13s to 153 for pinkey
white Bengal grain, being above the value, but damaged
sold at 6s to Ils 6d.

SPICES.—To-day, at public sale, 310 bags African
Ginger were taken in at 33s to 34s for good bold, and
at 32s for middling. 116 cases Cassia Lignea sold at
lower rates ; mouldy, pile 1, mid 55s ; pile 2, low mid
538 to 53s 6d ; pile 3, good ordinary coarse 51s 6d ;
broken 53s 61, and half bundles 525.
HOPS.—Th cre are sellers at a further reduction in the
value, still all kinds have been operated in with much
caution, and there are several parcels pressing for sale.
The accounts from the Plantations are of a satisfactory
nature. The duty for the kingdom is estimated at
185,0001.

SPlrtrrs.—lmporters of Jamaica Rum have been free
sellers this week, but submitting to a reduction on for-
mer rates of id to 2d per gallon occasioned the demand
to be good for all sorts, but the home trade were the
chief operators. The total sales amounted to 400 puns,
31 to 38 per cent. over proof of middling to good mid-
dling quality at 3s 8d to 3s 10d; 31 to 36 over good
4s to 4s 2d ; 36 to 38 over fine and superior 4s 3d
to 4s. Bd. Demerara is not cheaper, but the
sales are only 100 puns at 3s 6d to 3a 8d
for 38 per cent overproof. There are sellers of Leeward
Island upon reduced terms, but the purchases made
have been trifling at 2s 4d to 2s 5d proof strength. East
India is dull of sale and prices are on the decline. At
auction 130 hhtis of fair brown Madras only fetched 2i
per gallon proof with certificate. Of Calcutta only small
parcels found buyers at 2s ld to 2s 2d. The market is
well supplied with all sorts of Rum. In the prices of
Brandy there is no variation to notice this week, but all
kinds have met with a dull sale.
INDIGO. The market for East India is in a dull
state, and there are sellers in some cases rather under
last sale's rates. Spanish is not much in request.
This afternoon a public sale of 148 serons Guatimala
went at a decline on former rates of 3:1 per lb, hut
nearly the whole sold : Cortes at is lld to 2 9d,
Subres 2s 9d to 3s sd, and Flores 3s 61 to 3s 11d..
OlLS.—This afternoon at public sale 95 pkgs of cocoa
nut oil were sold at 48s to 56s 3d, and very low Qs;
115 casks Palm, middling and good 34s to 36Q, bleached
taken in at 41s; Sperm Oil is cheaper, but 195 tuns we re
sold at 831 to 861, Ileadmatter 84/ to 87/; of Southern 70
tuns sold at 2515 s to 271; of Sea Elephant 100 tuna
241 5s to 261 103.

Mrs. Lucy Gibson deposed that about eight years
ago she knew the prisoner at Brighton, and always found
her a kind and well-disposed person. She usid to suffer
a good deal from illness, and had fits several times.
Witness saw her in one Et, and she remained insensible
more than an hour.

- Cross-examined—The prisoner filled the situation of
kitchen maid in the same family at Brighton were wit
ness wad engaged as cook.
Robert Young, also a fellow-servant of the prisoner's
at Brighton, in another family, said that during the four
years he knew her she never appeared in good health,
and on one occasion he remembered she had a fit which
continued for two hours, and during that time she raved
very much. She was ays considered in the family to
be a kind and humane person.
Jane Rich, the prisoner's sister, who was much af-
fected while giving her evidence, was next examined.
She said that the prisoner was 33 years old. She was
always labouring under lowness of spirits, and would fre-
quently sit down arid cry for half an hour together.
lifer mother was subject to figs, and her brother had been
out of his mind.

Cross•examined—ller brother was now recovered.

Mary Richardso.i said she had known the prisoner for
17 or 18 years. She always considered her a very good,
hard-working girl. The prisoner stayed at her h.,use
for two months, and during that period she had a very
bad fit, and when she came to a little she !Diked very
wild, and witness kept away from her.
Cross-examined—lt was eight years ago it happened.
Miss Richardson, daughter
.of the last witness, also
spoke to seeing the prisoner in a fit while she was stay-
ing at her mother's house.
_

TALLOW.—This afternoon, at public sale, 139 pipes
35 hhds South American sold at 41s 6d to 48s for low
to fine; 56 casks Australian 44s to 47s 6d; 100 males
Odessa 45s 6d to 46s 63; 22 casks East India 45s 6d. to
46s 3d, which are ail lower rates.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

Charlotte Jennings, another fellow servant of the pri-
soner's 13 years ago, said that while in the service she
was subject to tainting fits, and she frequently observed
her to be very low-spirited. The prisoner had since
lodged with her on two or three occasions when she was
out of place, and her spirits always appeared to be very
much d• pressed, and she frequently found her crying.
The prisoner was one of the most humane, kind crea-
tures she ever knew.

CRO WN• OFFICE, Am. 17.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PARLIA.2IENT

SUMMONED TO BE HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER, ON

TUESDAY, THE 21ST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1847.
Essex (Northern Division)—Sir John Tyssen
Bart. ; William Beresford, Esq.
Southern Division—Thomas William Bramston, Esq..; Sir
Edward North Buxton, Bart.
Harwich John Bagshaw, of Gloucester-place, in the
county of Middlesex, Esq.; John Attwood, of ParkAane,
London, Esq.
Maltion—David Waddington, Esq. ; Thomas Barrett: len-
nard Esq.
Colchester—Sir George Henry Smith, Bart., of Berech urch
Hall, in the said borough ; Joseph Alfred Hardcaatle, of
Margaretting, in the county of Essex, barrister-at-law.
Surrey (Eastern Division)—The Hon. Peter John Locke
King, of Woburn, in the said county ; Thomas Alcoa., of
Kingswood-warren, in the said county, Esq.
Western Division—William Joseph Denison, of D exibies,
in the said county, F,sq. ; Henry Drummond, of Albur)
in the said county, Esq.
Guildford—Henry Currie, of West Horsley, in the said
county, Esq. ; Ross Donnelly Mangles, of Woodbridge, the
said county, Esq.
Southwark.—John Humphrey, of Hay's-wharf, Southmark,
Esq., one of the Aldermen of the city of London. Sir
William Molesworth, Bart., of Pencarrow, in the count y of
Cornwall.

Sarah Robinson said the prisoner lived in her house
from July to December, 1846. She had very bad health,
and always appeared in low spirits, and she frequently
S3W her crying without any apparent cause. She once
saw her in an hysteric fit, and she struggled and was
very violent, and required three men to hold her. She
appeared to be of a particularly kind and humane dis-
position.

- Emma Bayley said she remembered the prisoner
coming into the service of Mrs. Smythe Wyndham, in
which she was engaged in March last, and very soon
after that period she had a violent fit, and witness found
her on the floor quite insensible, and after a time she
became so violent, it required two men to hold her. She
continued in this state for a considerable time, and two
or three days after she recovered there was a peculiarly
wild expression in her eyes. The prisoner only re-
remained in the service for eight and twenty days. and
after she had left the service she came back for her
clothes, and while she was standing in the servants'
room the prisoner had another fit. She saw the pri-
soner again about three weeks afterwards, and she then
had the same wild appearance that she presented after
the preceding fits.
Cross-examined—The deceased used to come to the
house, and was an object of charity. After the prisoner
left the service she understood that she was going to stay
with the old woman for a night or two.
Some other servants in the establishment of Mrs.
Wyndham gave similar testimony, and they all deposed
to the violence of the prisoner while suffering under the
fit. All these witnesses were sent to give their testi-
mony as to what occurred by order of their master and
mistress.

Lambeth—Charles Pearson, Esq. ; the Right Honourable
Charles Tennyson D'Evncourt.
Reigate—Thomas Somers Cocks the younger, of Heterord-
street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.
August l 8.
Warwickshire (Northern Diyision)—Charles Newaigat,a
Newdegate, Esq. k Richard Spooner, Esq.
Southern Division—Evelyn John Shirley, Esq.; Ge orge
Guy Greville, commonly called Lord Brooke.
Birmingham—George Frederick Muntz, Esq. ; Ham
Scholefield, Esq.
Coventry—The Right Hon. Edward Ellice; George .7a Lmes
Turner, Esq.
Warwick—Sir Charles Eurwiche Douglas, Dint.;
Collins, Esq.
Cambridgeshire—The Hon. Eliot Thom as Yorke, of Wi # ton-
place, in the county of Middlesex ; Richard Greaves T
onNn-
ley, of Fulborne, in the county of Cambridge, Esq. ; Lord
George John Manners, of Belyoir-castle, in the county of
Leicester.

Mr. W. Verrall, surgeon to the Brighton Lying-in
Institution, proved that he attended the brother of the
prisoner upon two occasions fur delirium. The witness
then said that his experience in the diseases of women
induced him to believe that under peculiar diseases, to
which they were subject, the effect would ultimately be
to injure the brain.
Mr. Richard Rugg, surgeon to the Brighton Infirmary,
gave similar testimony. He expressed an opinion that
during a paroxysm occasioned in a female from the cir-
cumstance referred to, she wouli be in such a state of
mind as not to be aware what she was doing ; and, from
his own knowledge, he was aware that when in such a
state a woman would feel the greatest hatred towards
those with whom she had before been the most friendly.
Mr. BALLANTINE said this was the case for the pri•
soner.

University of Cambridge—The Hon. Charles Ewan L:tw,
D.C.L.; the Right Hon. Henry Goulburu, Master of A rt
Cambridge—Robert Alexander Shafto Adair, of Audi ey-
square, in the city of Westminster, Esq. ; the Hon. Wi.ldi am
Frederick Campbell, of Stratheden-house, Brompton.
Huntingdonshire—Edward Fellowe?, of Romsey-abbey -, in
the said county, Esq. ; George Thornhill, of Diddingtuu , in
the said county, Esq.
Huntingdonsbire—Colonel Jonathan Peel, of Park--p;'ace,
in the county of Middlesex ; Thomas Baring, of Chat IC3-
street, Berkeley-square, in the said county of Middlesex,. Esq.
Norfolk (Eastern Division)—Edmund Wodehoumep of
Sennow Lodge, in the said county, Esq.; Henry :V. gus
Burroughes, of Burlingharn, in the said county, Esq.
Western Division—William Bagge, of Stradsett-hall, in
the same county, Esq. ; the Hon. Edward Keppel Cott , of
Holkham, in the said county.
King's Lynn—The Right Hon. Lord George Bentia ck ;
Robert Jocelyn, commonly called Viscount Jocelyn.
Great Yarmouth—Arthur Lennox, commonly
called'. Lord
Arthur Lennox ; Octavius Edward Coope, of Great Culm ber-
land-place, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.
Thetford—The Right Hon. Wiliam Henry Fitzßoy, 'com-
monly called the Earl of Euston; the Hon. William I;ing-
ham Baring.

Dr. Sutherland was then called by Mr. BODKIN. —He
said, I am a pysician, and have had considerable prac-
tice in disorders of the mind. I was directed to be pre-
sent to-day by the solicitor to the Treasury, and I have
attended to the whole of the evidence, particularly that
of the witnesses for the prisoner, and assuming all the
facts that have been stated to be literally true, they do
not in my opinion indicate any unsoundness of mind in
the prisoner, in any degree whatever.

Cross•exarniml—My opinion would be more satis-
factory, of course, if' I had had an opportunity of per-
sonally- examining the prisoner. I have known cases of
women becoming quite insane from the cause suggested,
and where a woman, naturally of a humane and peace-
able disposition, has suddenly become quite ferocious.
By Mr. BODKIN—I cannot see any circumstance in
this case to induce me to believe that the brain of the
prisoner is in any way injured.
Mr. BODKIN—Did you ever hear of a case where a
woman had a violent attack of this description at nine
o'clock at night, for her to be perfectly cool and col-
lected, and not show any trace of that attack, in the
following morning at four o'clock ? Dr. Sutherland—l
never did hear of such a case.

August 19.
County of Buckingham—Caledon George Du Pre, or Bea-
consfield, Esq. ; the Hon. Charles Compton Cavendi WI, of
Latimer; Benjamin Disraeli, of Hughendon, Esq.
Aylesbury—John Peter Deering, Esq. ; the Right.. :Hon
George Lord Nugent.
Buckingham—The Most Noble Richard Plant: ige net
Campbell Grenville Nugent Chandos Temple, corn. ago nly
called Marquis of Chandos ; John Hall, Esq., Colonel her
Majesty's First Regiment of Life Guards.
Chipping Wycombe—George Henry Dashwood, of W est
Wycombe Park, Esq. ; Martin Tucker Smith, of Belg ra ye-
street, in the county of Middlesex, Esq.
Great Marlow—Thomas Peers Williams, of Temple H.ol :se,
in the county of Berks, Esq. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Brow. in. low
Knox, of Wilton-crescent, London.
Errata in the " Gazette" of Friday last.
County of Gloucester (Western Division)—For, 1;o1) ert
Blagden Hall, Esq. ; read, Robert Blagden Hale, Esq.
County of Cornwall (Erstern Division)—For, Willi am
Henry Poll Carew, of East Antony, in the said:county, ,E: ;
read, William Henry Pole Carew, of East Antony, . in. the
said county, Esq.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the C ou nty
Palatine of Lancaster.
Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanr. r Ca-
valry—Right Hon. Francis Earl of Ellesmere to be
Lieutenant-Colonel; Robert Tolver Gerard, Esq., to be
Major, June 15.
Furness Troop—Joseph Ridgway, Gent., to be 7 eu-
tenant, Aug. 11 ; Hon. Algernon Egerton to be C( r met,
June 17.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckingh Q.
Royal Bucks or King's Own Regiment of Mill tit
Benjamin Davidson, Gent., to be Ensign, March 1.
2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Caval ,
Henry Fleetwood, Nash, Gent., to be Cornet, June 110
WHITEHALL, AUG. 16.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Cl rke
the younger, of Bath, in the county of Somerset, G-e at.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Cowl of
Chancery.
ADMIRALTY, AUG 6, 1847.
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Mr. BODKIN the❑ replied, in a most calm and tem-
perate address, upon the whole ease:.
The Learned JUDGE commenced summing up the
case at ten o'clock at night. He went carefully through
the whole of the evidence, and said that the questions
the jury had to decide were—first, whether the prisoner
was the person who caused the death of the deceased,
and if so, whether at the time the act was committed
she was in such a state of mind as to render her account-
able for her act.

The jury retired at twenty minutes to twelve o'clock.
At five minutes past they returned into court and de-
livered their verdict, finding the prisoner Guilty, but
strongly recommending her to mercy on account of her
previous good character. _ _

The prisoner was then asked, in the usual form,
whether she had anything to urge why sentence of death
should not be passed ? and Mr. Harker, the chief usher,
made the usual proclamation.

Mr. Justice ERLE put on the black cap, and after
stating that the crime of the prisoner was so dreadful
that he could not hold out the slightest hope of a com-
mutation of the sentence, passed the sentence of death in
the usual form.
The prisoner was then asked whether she had any-
thing to say in arrest of judgment ? She replied,
" Nothing."
Mr. BALLANTINE said the proceeding was a novel one,
and he hardly knew the proper course to be adopted
with regard to the circumstance of the prisoner being
pregnant.

The following promotions have this day taken pti ce
consequent upon the death of Vice-Admiral Bend all
Robert Littlehales

Mr. Justice ERLE said that circumstance would be
taken into consideration by the proper authorities.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar.
The trial lasted more than fourteen hours.

Vice-Admiral of the White James Carthew to be Vic e-
Admiral of the Red.
Vice Admiral of the Blue Christopher John Williat as
Nesham to be Vice Admiral of the Red.
Rear Admiral of the Red Sir Hugh Pigot, Knt, K.C•i ;
K.C.H., to be Vice Admiral of the Blue.
Rear Admiral of the White Hon. George Poulett to., be
Rear Admiral of the Red.
Cear Admiral of the Blue James Murray Gordon t a be
Rear Admiral of the White.
Captain Edward Henry A'Court to be Rear Admii ill of
the Blue.

TUE ARMY AND NAVY CLUB —Yesterday the
committee of gentlemen for the erection of the new Army
and Navy Club [louse purchased the mansion of Lord
de Manley, St. James's square. and a number of houses
contiguous in Pall mall, which, including the whole of
the houses on the west-side of George-street, will be
pulled down to form the site of the new club house.

BANKRUPTS.
James Bundy, brick-maker, Lower Exbury, S
ampton (to surrender), Aug. 30, at half-past el
and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankru
Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Fitcb, S&
ampton-street, Bloomsbury.
Charles Edward Neate, coal-merchant, Creek-w: tar:f,
Hammersmith, Aug. 30, at half-past one, and Oct. 4 ,at
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official as-
signee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Mereditis and Co., L. 1-
coln's Inn.

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INCREASED VALUE OF FEN LAND.—Twenty-five
years since, Mr. Wentworth sold by auction the estates
of the late J. Artier, Esq., situate at Burwell, in this
county, including several parcels of ft-n land, one of
which was sold for 381. The same piece of land was
again sold by auction by the same auctioneer, on Friday
last, and made 4621. Cambridge Advertiser.
OFF TIIE WIGHT, AUG. 16.—William Lushington,
liavannah, for St. Petersburgh; Schema, New York for
Stettin. 17, Wellington, New York. 18, Howard,
Paulsen, New York for ilamburgh.

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE AT

MANCHESTER.

On Tuesday morning an inquest was held before the
Coroner, at the Old Swan public-house, Long Mil!gate,
on the body of an elderly individual, about fifty-six or
fifty-seven yeas s of age, who was found dead in bed in a
room in the house of John Lewis, lodginghouse-keeper.
The circumstances connected with the melancholy
affair are stated in the evidence produced before the
Coroner.

The first witness called was Mary Mullineux, servant
to John Lewis, who said that on Friday night last
the deceased came to their house. He was quite
sober. lie slept there all night, and on Satur-
day was up all the day. He slept again there on Satur-
day night. On Sunday morning witness went into
the deceased's room, between ten and eleven o'clock,
and asked him to get up, that she might make his bed.
Deceased replied that he did not intend to rise at all
during the day, on which she left him. In a little time
after deceased asked for a pint of beer. About three in
the afternoon she looked into dee+ asecl's room, and found
him asleep. She did not see him again till about nine
o'clock at night. When she went into the bed-room
she found deceased quite dead. There was a bottle on
the dressing-table, and a p'ece of rope beside it, suffi-
ciently long for any one to hang himself. She ran down
stairs and alarmed her ma)Lr, who at once went out for
a doctor. The doctor said the deceased had been dead
about an hour. On Saturday afternoon deceased wrote
two letters. He asked tor the post-office, and took away
the letters.

William Hughes, assistant to Mr. John G. Harrison,
surgeon, who examined deceased, said that on the table
there was a bottle. marked on the outside "Laudanum,
Poison." It would contain quite sufficient to poison de-
ceased. He considered that death bad been caused by
the taking of narcotic poison.
Hawkley, the constable, confirmed the preceding evi-
dence. On searching the pockets of the deceased, he
found a number of the London publication entitled the
Family Herald, the first paper in which is, " The Story
Teller; the Secret Poisoner," chap. 4, which, from its
appearance, the deceased had evidently been reading.
Up to this stage of the proceedings no evidence had
been adduced by which the identity of the deceased
could be established, and the jury were in the act of
returning a verdict upon him as " a person unknown,"
when Mr. Thomas Wright, of Manchester, entered.
He came in obedience to a letter be had received from
deceased, in which he informed him of the reasons of his
rash act, namely, his dismissal as night watchman for
having been found asleep on his post. The letter is
signed " W. M. Kelly."
Mr. Wright said the body viewed by the coroner and
jury was that of William Kelly. By that morning's post
he (witness) received the above letter, which was in the
deceased's own handwriting, and evidently written
under great agitation of mind. Deceased had died
under great distress of circumstances. He has left a
widow and six children. He had been in the employ-
ment of the Manchester and Leeds Railway as an
assistant storekeeper, but recently lost his situation,
which, no doubt, had preyed on his mind and increased
his distress.

The jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased
William Kelly died from laudanum, administered by
himself while labouring under temporary insanity."
The history of the latter days of the deceased is a very
melancholy one. Although reduced so far as to occupy
the humble situation of a railway menial, it is not more
than fourteen years since he held a commission as cap
taro in the 7th Dragoon Guards. Captain Kelly retired
at that period on half-pay, which he continued to enjoy
for some years. It appears, however, that either from
extravagance, the increasing expenditure of a large
family, or both combined, he was compelled to sell his
half pay about eight years ago, and ever since that pe-
riod his pecuniary condition has been progressively de-
teriorating, and his family, deprived of any source of re-
gular income, have suffered great privations, and been
much beholden to the kindness and sympathy of friends
for the means of support. He had been about eight
months in the service of the Leeds Company, for which
he was mainly indebted to the exertions of a few old
military friends. He was discharged for the reasons
stated in his letter to Mr. Wright. This seems to have
been regarded by him as the climax in his career of mis-
fortune, and he formed the terrible resolution of cutting
short his days of suffering and anguish by committing
suicide. For the purpose Gf more surely and uninter-
ruptedly accomplishin his object, he left his family on
Friday, and took up his abode in the house of a stranger.
We understood that he actually wrote three letters on
Saturday— one of them to his family; and it is remark-
able that, although he intimated his resolution to make
away with himself, and requested that they would come
and claim his remains, he omitted to give any address.—
Manchester Examiner.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, AUG. 18.
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—The
Dublin Evening Post says—" It becomes our most
painful duty to record the death of the Rev. Alexander
Hoops, Rector of Glankeen, county Tipperary, which
took place at his glebe, on Sunday, the 15th instant,
under the most distressing circumstances. A local cor-
respondent thus Writes:—' But two hours after he re-
turned from officiating in his church, labouring under
strong mental derangement, he put an end to his life
with a loaded pistol, by his own hand. For some time
his family observed that he was suffering under unusual
depression of spirits owing to the harrowing scenes of
distress among the starving poor around him, in behalf
of whom his warmest sympathies were called forth.
Previous to the carrying out of the Government mea-
sures of relief, he was daily to be seen distributing with
his own hands meal procured by private subscription,
to the famishing multitudes around him. In minister-
ing to their wants the interests of his own family
were almost disregarded. Subsequently the reverend
gentleman filled the office of chairman of the relief
committee. Advanced as he was in years, and possess-
ing an over-sensitive mind, its onerous duties
proved too much for him. He was sinking beneath their
weight until, by the advice of his friends, he resigned
the office. But his mind was not thereby relieved irom
the intense pressure of anxiety. The gloom became
settled, and his name may now be added to the long list
of generous men who have fallen victims to their de-
votedness in the cause of our famishing poor, and who,
in show ing mercy to others, have had no mercy on
themselves. This sad event has thrown his own imme-
diate family, the poor of his parish, and the numerous
circle of his friends into the deepest affliction.' "
The Tipperary Vindicator says—" The Rev. Mr.
lloops committed the rash deed by placing a loaded
pistol to his head, and literally blowing out his brains.
An inquest was held by T. O'Meara, Esq., county coro-
ner, and a verdict according to the circumstance was
returned."

" Council Chamber, Dublin Castle, Aug. 16, 1847.
Her Majesty, by her royal letters, having appointed the
Right Hon. Sir William Meredyth Somerville, Bart., to
be one of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
of Ireland, he this day in Council took the usual oaths
and his place at the board accordingly."

FIVE SHILLINGS FOR SAUCE. - Two Scotch
drovers came to Sheffield for the purpose of selling some
cattle ; after disposing of which, they made their way
to the nearest neighbouring inn, to put up for the night.
On their arrival, Donald, the elder of the two, addressed
the landlord as follows :—" What hae ye got for sipper
the night ? " The answer was, a leg of mutton, a couple
of rabbits, and a fowl. " Weel, ye can fetch them up,
as Sawney and I are gae hungry. We hae had a lang
trudge o't the day." The supper being laid, they suited
their actions to their words, for they picked the bones
as cleans as sticks. The two drovers being shown to
their sleeping apartments, which happen to adjoin that
of the landlord, and separated only by a very light par-
tition, the following conversation took place, and was
overheard by the host Wee!, Sawney, what d'ye
think we'll hae to pay for the sipper ? " Weel, Donald,
troth I dinna ken ; but we'll een jist reckont up. First
and foremost, we had a cockie leekie (the fowl), that's
tipence ; than there's the twa Johnny Runaways (the
two rabbits), that's tipence ; thaa there's the tipshanks
(legs of mutton), that's tipence—exactly that jist makes
saxpence. %Peel, that's no out o' the way, Donald."
Upon the reflection of which they sunk into the arms of
Morpheus. By times in the morning they applied to
the landlord for the price of the supper, upon which the
host replied in the words overheard by him the previous
night, " Why, gentlemen, there's cockie leckie, that's
tipence ; twa Johnny Runaways, that's ither tipence ;
and tipshanks will be tipence, that jist makes saxpence."
" Weel." "But then there'd five shillings for sauce."
" Gude guid us ! five shillings for sauce ! the deil tak
you and your sauce baith. Come awa, Sawney ; we hae
had enough o' his sauce. We'll think twice afore we'll
come back to this cursed country to pay five shillings for
sauce 1"

A MARKET FOR TALENT.—Some time ago there
alighted at Stortford an adventurer, whose only means
of existence were his wits and four pence in his pocket.
He forthwith determined upon enlightening our simple
townsfolk, and with that object disbursed half his pro-
perty at the barber's, in order to make a clean appear-
ance before an audience in the Corn Exchange. He
then held forth on the wonderful effects of ether on the
human frame, and he so charmed his hearers that he
was solicited to repeat his lecture. To this proposal he
had no objection. He lectured again and again on ether,
till the subject was as familiar as air to our townsmen.
He now turned to other matters ; he took up painting
and music, painted portraits exquisitely, and performed
delightfully on every kind of musical instrument. His
talents were appreciated ; he was taken by the hand by
several ot; what are termed, the influential inhabit•
ants ; he was received at their tables, and in return for
their patronage did his utmost to amuse them by his
musical, pictorial, sleight-of-hand, and general abili-
ties. As time flew on, his circumstances improved ; as
an artist he had got together a decent connexion, and
as a lecturer he still shone forth, for he now discoursed
of general subjects. One of these was " Fun and
Folly," in expatiating upon which he quite tickled his
listeners. This " Admirable Crichton" had, however,
two personal faults ; his visage was too highly coloured,
the result, some said, of experiments upon the compa-
rative exhilarating powers of strong liquids, and Lis
whole appearance indicated that he had been for some
time descending the hill of life. But, notwithstanding
these defects, and notwithstanding the presence of a
lady passing as his wife, he managed to wheedle him-
self into the favour of a respectable young female in the
town, and as an illustration of his " Fun and Folly"
lecture, and as a dashing finale to bis career in Stort-
ford, he persuaded her to an elopement. All are happy
to hear, however, that the old adventurer was followed,
and the young woman rescued from the misery that lay
before hen—Beds County Press.
SEVEN HORSES KILLED.—On Wednesday evening,
a number of valuable horses, belonging to Mr. Stevenson,
contractor, were killed by the fall of a stable in Buchanan-
street, in which the animals were kept.—North British
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