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MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

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body was taken

George Goodman, of No. 5, Pitt-place, a file-cutter, corroborated
the above statement: "He knew the prisoner as an apprentice to the
deceased. Ile was not quite dead when they found him, but he cOuld,
not speak.

Frederick Walker, of NO. 20, Princes-street, Drury-lane, said that
yesterday morning, at about five minutes past six o'clock, he was In
a public-house in Princes-street, when the prisoner came in and
asked for a pennyworth of rum, with which he was served: Wit-
ness asked him whether "Jem," meaning the deceased, was up yet.
He said he was net, and would not be until half-past six or seven
o'clock. He then went away.

Martha Hazlett, a young woman, 18 or 19 years of ago, was then
called. On being asked whether she knew the prisoner, she began
to cry very bitterly, and it was some time before she was sufficiently
recovered to give her evidence. She stated that she met the prisoner
at about nine o'clock on the morning of the murder, in Chiswell-
sti eet, Finsbury-square. He said that he was not going to work that
day. They went to a public-house and had some spirits, for which
he paid. They then parted, and he appeared to be in a great hurry.

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shopman in the employ of Messri.llarding, gunsmiths, of 69.
GreatQueen-street,Lincoln's Inn-fields, said that onMonday orTuesday
of last week the prisoner came to him with a pistol, which was out
of order. It was a flint and steel pistol. Witness only oiled the
spring, which was stiff, and the barrel, which was rusty. Witness
charged him sixpence. He said he wanted to shoot a dog
that had bit him, and shoWed a scar upon his jaw.
He asked witness to give him a bullet. He had not
a bullet, but he gave him two slugs. On Wednesday he
came again, and said that the pistol had missed fire, but
witness showed him that it was in good order. He said he had shot
the dog. On Thursday he went to the shop again, and showed wit-
ness a percussion-cap pistol, which he said he had got in exchange for
the other, and had given halt-a-crown into the bargain. Witness put
the pistol in order, and gate the prisoner a few caps. He said he
wanted to go shooting on Primrose-hill on Sunday. He then went
away.

Edward Mailers, a dealer in pawnbroker's unredeemed pledges, of
129, Drury-lane, said that in the course of last week the prisoner
came several times to his shop to bargain for a pistol which he
wished to buy. Finally witness gave him a percussion-cap pistol in
exchange for a flint pistol, receiving half-a-crown in addition,
from the prisoner. The prisoner said that lie wanted it to shoot birds
with. (The witness produced the pistol, which he had received from
the prisoner.)
James Stowe, an oil and colourman, of 19, Great Wild-street,
proved that the prisoner had bought gunpowder of him on several
oecasions during the last week. He always said he wanted it
to shoot birds with, and on one occasion he showed him a pistol.
A policanian, who was on duty in Great Wild-street, on Saturday
night, said, he was called into the house, No. 4, Pitt-place,
by the deceased, who was about to give the prisoner into
custody for obtaining money, and converting it t• his
own use. The prisoner said he had lost it, and offered to pay half-
a-crown a week till the whole sum (11s.) should be paid. He also
said, You can stop it out of my wages, which come to 145., but how
am Ito live ? The deceased did not give him in charge, but said he
would stop out of his week's wages the 118., and 2s. 6d., which he
had borrowed from him, snaking 13s. Gd. lie then gave the prisoner
6d., which made up the sum of 14s , the prisoner's wages.
Policeman Pocock, F 14, and Thompson, A 62, took the prisoner
In charge, at a coffee-house in Great Queen-street, Drum-1,..e, at
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was ; uuu uc siuu rogue'_o ine4, MS was brewing—
for him for twelve months, and I have revenged myself• for his cruel
treatment to me." He was cautioned that anything he said
would be used against him, and he said no more. -
Afterwards, at the station-house he said several times that the de-
ceased was a very bad master to him, and that he had been re-
venged. Once he said, " I was sorry for him when I had done it ;
hut he behaved very badly to me." He afterwards said, "Oh, Po-
cock, what is worse than a guilty conscience ?"
The prisoner, who, during the evidence of the policemen, had ap-
peared more serious than before, on being asked if he had any ques-
tion to put to the witness Pocock, said " .tio ; he gives:his evidence so
sincerely that I can say nothing to him ; and the evidence is so clear
against me that I must confess that I am guilty of it. I did do it ;
and I only wonder I did not de it twelve months ago, his conduct to
me was so cruel," •
Mr. James Duncan, the house-surgeon of King's College Hospital,
mid that at half-past six on Monday morning the body of Om
deceased was brought to him on a stretcher. He was quite insensible.
He had a wound behind the left ear, which witness had ascertained,
on post mortem examination, passed through the skull. The bullet
had lodged in the right side of the brain. He died at about three
o'clock in the afternoon, and the wound was the immediate cause of
death.
The depositions were then read over to the prisoner.
The prisoner made a statement of the conversation between him-
self, the deceased, and the policeman, which differed but slightly
from that of the policeman himself. He then signed the statement
he had made after the evidence of the witnesses Pocock and Thomp-
son, which had been taken down by the clerk at the time.
The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner
was hilly committed.
This extraordinary case occupied the attention of the Court up to
a quarter to six o'clock in the evening.

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT CAM-

BE R WELL.
Shortly after seven o'clock on Monday lemming Mae neighbourhood
of Southampton-place, Camberwell, was thrown into the groates t
consternation by the screams of a woman, who had just made her
escape, by the back door of No. 5, Wellington-place, a small cottage
residence. only two stories high. The first person who repaired to
the spot was Mr. Pratt, a surgeon, who resided at No. 4, and who,
upen entering, was horror-struck at the scene which presented itself.
In an upper room, upon the floor, lay the lifeless body of M. Dina-
rete Homan, a Frenchman, aged 53, with his throat cut from ear to
ear ; on the bed, his son, aged 13, quite dead, shockingly mutilated
About the throat; and in a lower room, another sow, aged 11, with his
throat cut, a wound on the cheek, and his hand much lacerated, who was
at first supposed to be dead, but afterwards showed some symptoms of
life, but totally unable to articulate or give the least account of the
dreadful catastrophe ; and in a short time afterwards a female child,
aged eight months, was found dead in a water-butt which stood in
the garden, but having no wounds whatever about its person. It ap-
pears that the unfortunate man had resided at No. 5 for the last
twelvemonth, supporting his family as a teacher of languages. lie
had been in the habit of rising about seven in the morning, and
usually took down stairs with him one of the twin infants, who slept
in the same bed as he and the mother. Yesterday morning, on
dressing himself, he did the same thing, taking one child with him,
and leaving the other in bed with the mother. In a few minutes
the mother, being alarmed, by a loud shrieking, went to the room,
and on opening the door was met by the younger boy, who imme-
diately ran down stairs bleeding, at the bottom of which he fell down
apparently lifeless; and on entering the room Mrs. Ilorean saw-
her unfortunate husband in the act of caning his own throat, and
before she could interpose he had fallen down a corpse. On looking
farther, she discovered her eldest sou dead in the bed, but could not
perceive any traces of her infant child, who was, however, shortly
afterwards discovered to have been drowned in the water-butt.
There is no doubt whatever but that the unfortunate father proceeded
to the garden instantly on leaving his bedroom, and having drowned
the child, then ascended to the children's room, where he afterwards
perpetrated the other murders, committing suicide the moment an
alarm was raised. As no vital organ has been severed, hopes are
entertained that the youngest boy's life will be saved, although, of
course, there is great danger that he will not survive the shock.
There seems •to be little doubt but that. owing to their pri-
vations, temporary insanity was the immediate cause of this
shocking affair, as his pecuniary embarrassments had for
some weeks past induced great depression of spirits. The
widow states that she believes it was her husband's intention to have
murdered her, and all the children, before he destroyed himself; which
he doubtless would have done, had it not been for the screams of her
8011 Philarete. Such pree..ations had h. 11.3,n, (h.,* anor-chain
was found twisted that she could not open the street doer,
escape, had he made an attack upon her life. She says that she has
been married nearly twenty years ; that the deceased was formerly
a schoolmaster at Leicester, but had of late been obtaining a scanty
subsistence for his family by teaching the French and Italian lan-
Saages. In the back room, first floor, were a crib bedstead, an old
mattress, and scarcely any clothes to cover the children. There
were neither chairs, tables, or any other article of furniture. In the
adjoining room was an old mattress, on which the man and his un-
fortunate wife, with her twin children, slept. Tile* was no bed-
stead, only three old chairs and a table. The whole of the other
rooms were perfectly empty.

THE MURDERS AND SUICIDE AT CAMBERWELL.—•
FURTIIES. PARTICULARS YESTERDAY.—The painful excitement con-
nected with this tragical affair continues unabated. Vast numbers
of persons are assembled round the cottage, which is under charge nt
Sergeant Melville, of the P division, and two other constables. The
unfortunate widow continues in a stupefied condition, refusing all
sustenance, but clasps to her bosom her remaining twin offspring
The poor little boy who was wounded in the throat, but not so effec-
tually as to destroy life, is likely to recover ; he is under the care
of Mr. Pratt, the surgeon, as is also the unfortunate mother.
upon whom a strict watch is kept, as fears are entertainei
that she will attempt suicide. The bodies of the wretched man and
the two children have been placed in the parish shells to await the
result of the . coroner's inquest, which is appointed to take
place this morning. The twin child who was drowsed
in the water-butt, is not the male but the female infant., as errone-
ously stated in the morning papers. It would appear that the un-
happy man was driven to the desperate deed by destitution, as it is
well known in the neighbourhood that on Sunday the whole of the
amity subsisted upon only a few potatoes and some herrings, and the
interior of the house at once exhibits the most palpable proofs of ex-
treme distress.

(From the London New Price Current of Feb. 17.) '

St:MAIL—To-day there was a better desire manifested to puiThase
West India Sugar, especially the bright yellow and strong refining
descriptions, and the rates paid were equal to those of Friday, but
not above.
Meunrrms.—This afternoon Mauritius was less in request, and
5,221 bags at public sale were only in part sold, but merchants were
not inclined to press sales, and the rates obtained were nearly equal
to those previously quoted.
EAST INDTA.—This afternoon 1,577 bags
averaged those of the
last auction.ar, but
oilercd at public sale, and sold at ;prices that
of Bengal sugar were
Sug
205 65 per cwt.
privately 1,000 casks of tine Porto R
i
FonslGN.—To-day there was no public
a '-'
were
edted demand for refined
REFINED.—To-day there was only e"lsoe ofld Fatoreign
gh 63s was accepted for standard, and
home trade, although 63s was accepted for standard, and
628 for brown gTOcerYlsmPs. liontied Crushed Sugar met with ins
attention, and first:quality brought 34s 6d to 355. For Dutch
crease .
6gris fosrfrbo brown wtr grocery luPs•
TI iafternoon the market was better supplied, but
COCHINEAL.— i s
the donut at-was active at 31s to 33s per cwt.
the trade were not much inclined to operate; at public sale 104 bags
of Honduras were offered, and a part only sold at former rates.
of
so
ratesld i n
oefoni consequence
ene
,pee
re
wholders
t., but
theb - su
Corms.—This atLernoon the market was more freely supplied
with Ceylon Coffee, and the quantity offered at public sale amounted
nit0i3tt,12,6)47
to
gas
r;
etdhue,
tiNativereduction
on was all
former
plantation being held for fully previous prices, a small part only
Ibund buyers.

Ti.e.Any improvement in prices has been prevented from taking
place in consequence of the large stock, but the trade have operated
with more freedom since the public sales.
SPICES. —This afternocal Nutmegs met with attention, and 54 casks
at public sale were sold at firm rates. Of Mace 24 casks were
offered, and sold at low rates. Twelve bags of Cloves sold at lld to

11►%d 'for dull Amboyna, one lot Is OY-01. 100, casks of Bengal
Ginger were only in part sold.
SPIRITS.--To-day, although Runt was to be obtained upon rather
lower toms, still there was net much business transacted ; Madras
proof was sold at Is Bd, with certificate; Calcutta Is 84 to Is lid ;
low not clean Is ; and Leeward Island at Is Ild, for proof o
clean quality.