The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-05 00:00:00

LON DON, SA 11 U RDAY EVENING SUN,

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER-
TAINMENTS.

Ail SIC-IL LL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE.
On MONDAY EVENING, 7th of June, at Eight o'clock, Mr.
WILSON will give an Entertainment on the
OY GS OF SCOTLAND,
When he will sing a variety • of Popular Songs and Ballads.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.

C. Cownden, boat builder, Fore. street. Lambeth, June 25
—F. Champness, linendraper, Bishop's-road, Paddington,
June 25—J. Russell, jun., builder, Whittlesea, Cambridge-
shire, June 25—J. Haly, merchant, Surrey-street, Strand,
June '2B—J. Softlaw, wine merchant, Adelaide-place, London-
bridge, June 26—R. Satchell, Jun., cowkeeper, Winsley-
street, Oxford-street, June 26-I'. Sivill, publican, Liverpool,
June 25-1). Rogers licensed victualler, Liverpool, June 25
—M. M'Donnell, ship broker, Liverpool, June 25—T. Slat-
tery, corn broker, Liverpool, June 25—R. Dickinson, malt-
ster, Poulton in the Fylde, Lancashire, June 25—J. Duncan,
merchant, Liverpool, June 26—H. Worthington, cotton
manufacturer, Eccleshill, Lancashire, June 28—J. Winder,
bleacher, Salford, Lancashire, June 28—J. Hill, share
broker, Leeds, June 25—H. Booth, J. Booth, and T. Booth,
hat manufacturers, Haughton, Lancashire June 25—T.
M'Enteer, provision merchant, Liverpool, June 25—J. H.
Gandell and J. Brunton, commission agents, Birkenhead,
Cheshire, June 25—J. Bramall, grocer, Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire, June 25—J. Brown, carver and gilder, Great
Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields June 25.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Buchan, Brothers, West India merchants, Glasgow,
June 8 and June 29, at one, at the chambers of Messrs. Steele
and Douie, Glasgow.
Colin Robinson Fraser and James Smith, merchants,
Thurso, June 12 and July 1, at one, at M'Kay's Hotel,
Thurso. _ _ .

William Brown, wright, Glasgow, June 10 ant July 1, at
twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. Couper and White.
Glasgow.
John Primeroso Bertram, banker, Edinburgh, June 10 and
July 1, at two, at the premises of Mr. Cay, Edinburgh.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
roue the returns made in the week ending June 1,
1847, is 295. 7d. cwt.

THE MURDER AT BRISTOL.

The inquiry into the causes of the death of the unfor-
tunate woman, Sarah Skinner, took place on Thursday
evening before Mr. Grindma, the city coroner.
James Irwin, the brother of the deceased, deposed
that the deceased, together with her husband and two
children, occupied an upper room in the house, No. 4,
Limekiln-lane, which was the only apartment they had,
the accused being a mechanic. At about half-past seven
o'clock on the evening of Tuesday deponent called in
upon them to see his sister, who was at home; her hus-
band was lying down undressed in bed, and complained
of not being well The witness recommended him to
take some castor-oil, and the wife set herself about pre-
paring some tea for her husband. They were both of
them perfectly sober. While witness was sitting down
he noticed that the handle of a small sweeping or hearth-
brush was broken, and asked how it came so, and the
prisoner replied, " I broke it on Sally (meaning his
wife) yesterday beating her," and she then complained
of bruises. Witness replied that it was a shame for a hus-
band and wife to be quarrelling and disagreeing, and that
if he were married, rather than he would be beating his
wife, he would separate from her, if' he went to
the furthest part of the earth. The husband replied
that was what she wanted, and the deceased said, " No,
indeed, it is not," and that she had no wish to leave him
after having been for several years married. Witness
then said, he was sorry that he had beaten her, fur it
never belonged to one of her family to be ill conducted.
[he husband replied, that witness knew nothing about
it, and ordered him out of the room. Witness said he
would go, and got up to do so, but his si,ter caught hold
of him, and would not let him go, exclaiming, that if he
left, her husband would murder her. The prisoner then
jumped out of bed, undressed as he was, and struck at
her ; a sort of scuffle ensued, in which they all three fell
on the bed, and he (witness) endeavoured to hold the
husband, to prevent his beating her. He, however, got
away, and ran to a shelf, slid seized an ivory-handled
table knife, with which he ran at either witness or the
deceased, he could not say which, and drove witness out
of the room down two or three of the stairs. The pri-
soner then returned to the room, and almost immediately
witness heard a crash, but supposed it to be the break-
age of some cups and saucers, and went down stairs,
when the first thing that met his view was his sister
lying on the pavement of the street in a dying state.
When witness left the room the window was closed.
%V. Watkins, a coach painter, was the next witness
called, and stated, that having left his work at about a
quarter before eight o'clock. on Tuesday evening, he was
passing down Limekiln-lane, when on coming near the
house No. 4, he noticed the body of a woman falling,
and looking up to see whence she fell, he saw the third
window up from the street in the act of being closed,
although he could not see who it was that was closing it.
Ho ran to the unfortunate woman, who was covered with
blood, and lifted her up. She was in ady ing state, and
was carried into the house, where she very shortly died.
A poliee-constable deposed that he was not on duty at
the time of the occurrence, but was standing at the door
of the house in which he resided, and which was not
more than thirty yards from the house in question.
Hearing a crash, he ran into the street, and saw the
poor woman dashed on the pavement. He ran to her,
and assisted her into the house, and sent for medical
assistance; but before any could arrive the woman was
dead. She was perfectly insensible, and never spoke.
Witness then returned to his house, and having put on
his uniform coat, and got his staff, not being away more
than two minutes, went up-stairs into the room occupied
by the deceased and her husband. The prisoner was in
the room, and the two little children; he was lying on the
bed undressed. Witness asked him if he knew what
had occurred, and he said he did not. Witness then
asked him if he knew his wife had fallen out of the
window, to which the prisoner replied that she had
thrown herself out, and that he had just seen her hair
outside the window as she was falling. He then asked
witness what had become of her? and upon being an-
swered that she was lying dead in the kitchen, he looked
up in the policeman's face and smiled, but said nothing.
Witness then examined the room, and on looking at the
window found it shut and buttoned on the inside. The
bottom of the window was about a foot from the floor of
the room. The window itself contained nine panes of
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examination of the body; the viscera were healthy, there
were no signs of recent intoxication. There were some
bruises on the left arm and one on the leg. The fourth
left rib was broken, and the skull was most extensively
fractured from the front to the base, extending down
through the eye and the nose. The injury to the brain
caused by these fractures was no doubt the cause of
death.

The Coroner then summed up, and the jury delibe-
rated for a lengthened period, when it was understood
that 12 were for a verdict of wilful murder, and three
against. The inquiry was then adjourned till to-day,
when two additional witnesses were produced, one of
whom, a woman, deposed to her having seen a man's
arm in his shirt sleeves closing the window as the woman
was falling.
The jury then returned a verdict of " Wilful Mur-
der," and the prisoner was committed accordingly.

MURDER AT KIDDERMINSTER
KIDDERMINSTER, THIIRSDAY.—The inquest On the
body of Phillpotts was re-opened last evening, before
Mr. R. Docker, at the Town-hull. The excitement con-
tinued as great as on the previous day.
It will be seen from the following report that a num-
ber of witnesses were examined, and in consequence of
the reluctance of one of them to appear, the Coroner
issued a summons for his appearance.
The evidence of Cornelius Thomas, painter, was first
taken. This witness was in the street at the time the
affray took place. After some quarrelling and fighting
he saw Lloyd take refuge in the house of Lockley, and
saw Phillpotts and Lloyd strike each other in the door-
way, immediately on which Phillpotts rushed back into
the street covered with blood. The witness corroborated
several portions of the evidence given by the witnesses
on Tuesday evening. He was the party who first saw
the knife in the back kitchen. When he picked it up he
did not notice that it was bloody, the light being bad.
It was a two-bladed knife. The witness on being exa-
mined by the attorney for the prisoner, and by the jury,
said he did not see any person strike Phillpotts. Any
one might have done so without his (witness's) observ-
ing it.
to end. He
The next witness, Joseph Hill, fruiterer, saw the
whole of the transaction from beginning
deposed that on his return homeward from a club-walk
he encountered a body of nearly 20 people on Lion-hill.
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after which the quarrelling recommenced,
latter, as already stated in the evidence of other wit-
nesses. Lloyd and Mrs. Lockley stood at the door, and
Phillpotts coming to the footpath before Lockley's door,
called to Lloyd to " come out," and he would have a
round or two at him." To this Lloyd made answer—
"lf you'll come here, I will show you the way to Brum-
magem." Some of Phillpotts's friends then incited him
to "go at Lloyd," upon which Phillpotts rushed at
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him fighting with Pardoe, but hearing this be
got up, and running into the street, saw the blood
spouting from a wound in Phillpott's throat nearly a
yard in front of him. The deceased fell to the ground
shortly after he ran from Lockley's house, and was
picked up by a young man, who held him in a sitting
posture on the ground. He appeared almost insensible,
and witness sent for a surgeon, and fetched Phillpotts's
brother's wife. The deceased was then gasping, and
died shortly afterwards. The witness then detailed the
circumstances of the finding of the knife, as already de-
posed to by the witness Thomas. On the knife being
found Mrs. Lockley declared that it belonged to Lloyd.
but Lloyd denied it. Mrs. Lockley's hand was slightly
cut; and the inspector of police having asked her how it
happened, she replied that she did not know, but sup-
posed she must have received it in the scuffle when Lloyd
turned from the door. The several parties were then
questioned by the police, and the prisoner Lloyd was
taken off to the police-station.