The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-21 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

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An attempt at murder was made yestt,rday (Sunda:r)
coretieun, in Dudley-street, bt. Gales's, wnicn it is tea, td
will be attended with fatal consequences to an ageel
woman, named Mary Ritchie, and her daughter, a young
woman, far advanced in pregnancy, 22 years of age.
It appears that a young man named James Parker, 3
tailor, but who for some time past had obtained a living
by dancing at public concert-rooms, had been cohabiting
with the daughter, named Eliza Burgess, for nearly
twelve months. Parker being of very dissipated habits,
:she agreed to separate from him. Accordingly she
went to live with her mother, who had lodgings at the
house of Mr. Fleming, a boot and shoemaker, No. 26,
Dudley-street, St. Giles's.
Although living separate from each other Parket
frequently called to see the unfortunate girl and her
mother, but during the last week or so frequent quarrels
had taken place between them. At an early hour yes-
terday morning Parker called upon them, and for
nearly two hours Mr. Fleming heard the parties using
high words. It was deemed necessary to turn him out
of the house, which was accordingly done by Mr.
Fleming. He, however, returned soon afterwards, and
after staying a few minutes in the room of firs. Richie
he muttered something, then left in a great hurry, and
went to ,the house of Mr. Johnson, a shoemaker, No.
25 in the same street, of whom he borrowed a knife,
stating at the time that he wanted it to cut the sole
off one of his dancing pumps that had become loos&
Parker having examined it, complained of the
blade being rather blunt pointed, and asked
Mr. Johnson to give it a rub or two on the strop
to make it sharper. This was done, when he re.
returned to Air. Fleming's house, and almost imme-
diately afterwards loud cries of " Murder" were heard
proceeding from the room in question. Mr. Fleming
without delay ran up stairs, where he met Mrs. Ritchie
bleeding profusely from the lower part of the body. She
eried out, " I am murdered: catch Parker, he is killing
my daughter now." He rushed into the room, when lie
perceived Parker with a knife in his hand and his sleeve§
besmeared with gore. He, on seeing Mr. Fleming, oried
out, " What business have you here? Stand off, or it
will be cold coffee with you." At the same time hi
threw the bloody knife out of one of the badi windows►
and rushed forth into the street. One of the neighbours
having heard the alarm, and seeing Parker's hands
covered with blood, laid hold of him and kept hits until
the arrival of a police-constable, into whose custody h•
was immediately given, and he was at once removed to
the station-house in Bow-street.

Police constable Bain and other parties, withont *
moment's loss of time, took the two injured women to Is
neighbouring surgeon's, but such was the dangerous
character of the wounds inflicted that their instant re-
moval to Charing-cross Hospital was deemed necessary.
The younger woman, as she was being conveyed thither,
bled most copiously from the wounds in her forehead
and back, and her mother bled as extensively from *
wound in the lower portion of the billy and another in
one of her thighs. Mr. Steggall, the resident house-
surgeon of the hospital, upon seeing the two women at
once pronounced them to be in imminent danger. The
abdomen of Mrs. Ritchie was perforated to the extent of
several inches, and so was the wounded thigh. Such is
the dangerous nature of the injuries that her death 11
hourly expected.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share market keeps firm t.-day,
with a small business doing. The business done was the fol-
lowing :—Huddersfield and Manchester, 21/4 dis.—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, Fifths, I/.2 p.—London and North-Western,
146—Ditto, New Quarters, 5 1 p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 101. Preference, IA p. —Midland, 40/. Shares,
45A —Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6% die.—Yerkt
Newcastle, and Berwick (N. and B. Extension), No. 2,
3t/2p.
MANCHESTER, FEB. 9.
STOCK EXCILANGE.—The sales are—Bolton, Blackburn,
&c. (A), 63/4 dis. —North Staffordshire, 7 p.—South-East-
ern and Dover, No. 4, 1 dis.

U. ll/.2
LEEDS, FEB. 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and York-
shire (West Riding Union), 2% dis.—North British, Thirds,
3s. 6d. dis.—Ditto, Quarters, 7s. 6d. dis.—North-Westerh
Ils. 9d. dis.

BIRMINGHAM, FEL 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting'
ham, and Boston, 46e. 3d. dis..-t North Stafford.shire, %
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 565. id. dis.—Ditto
(B), 365. 3d. dis.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Fa& 19.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Lancashire and Cat"
lisle, 53 ex div.—Newcastle and Carlisle, New Scrip, 102---
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 2% P
—Ditto (N. and B.), 311. 12s. 6d.
YORK, FEB. it
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— Great Northern, 41.
)2s.—Northern Counties Union, ss. 6d.—North Western,
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original N. and B.), 31%
Ditto, Extension, No. 1, 20—Ditto, No. 2 (late New Bev
wicks), 1314—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 104.
GLASGOW, FEB. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bath,
gate, 50s.—Caledonian, 35—Edinburgh and Perth, 135.--•
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 2, 1134.--bian-
chester and Southampton, 6s. Ed.--North British, Third"
465. 6d.—Wishaw and Coltness, 45%—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 10%.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.
Badsworth hds., Tues., Scawsby Bar; Thurs., Barns;
Sat., Notton Village—ioi.
r. Lumley's hds., Monday, Sperkin-hill; Wed.,
Crookhill; Fri., Cringley on the Hill; Sat.. Swinnovr
Wood-10f.
Rufford hds., Mon., Kennels; Thurs., Upton Village;
Sat., Cocking Moor-10i.
Earl of Harewood's hds., Mon., Spdforth; Wed.,
Hook Moor; Fri.. Wigbill Village-104.
Lord Yarborough's hds., Mon., Kelsey River Head;
Fri., Utterby-11.
Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Mon., Birdsall House-141
Wed., Wilberfoss Mill-11; Pri., Scampston House

Holderniss hds.. Moni, Bessingsby; Tues., Cavil
Ila 11; Thurs., Cranswick; Sat., Rise Mill-101.
Cheshire hds., Mon., Davenam Hall; Wed., Dunham
Park; Fri., Black Dog, Saghton; Sat., Withington

Sir W. Wynn's hds., Tues., Styche ; Wed., Hawk-
stone ; Fri., Prees; Sat., Loppington Village--104.
South Essex hds., Tues., North Ockington ; Thurs.,
Hockley Bull ; Sat., Turner's Gate, by Hadleigh-14.
East Essex hds., Tues., Stambourn Village ; Sat.,
Marks Hall-10i.
Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues., Hartley.* ood ; Fri.,
Justice Wood.
Cottesmore hds., Mon., Stocken Hall ; Tues., Brook
Hall ; Thurs., Loddington ; Fri., Knossington-10j.
Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Mon., Long Orton ; Wed.,
Oundle Wood ; Fri., Buckworth Village--10.
Duke cf Rutlantl's hds., Mon., Crorton Park--10i
Tues., Great Gonerby-12; Wed., Crorton Park; Fri.,
Cranwell-104.
Mr. M. Ingram's . hds. Mon., Drakelon ; Thurs.,
Spread Eagle ; Sat., 13lithfield.

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THE TRIPLE MURDR AT BILUSSELS.—EIECII'
TION OF THE MURDERERS.—On Saturday morning, at
a quarter to nine, Rouseel and Vandenplaas, accom-
panied by the chaplain of the prison and the Abbe Trist,
left their cells. The cortege proceeded along the Rue-
aux-Laines and the Boulevard- de-Waterloo, as far as the
Gate de Hal, against which the scaffold was erected,
fronting the Rue-Haute. Vandenplaas appeared to be
greatly cast down, but Rouseel walked with firmness.
At nine o'clock the condemned arrived at the place of
execution ; they embraced, their confessors, and Van-
denplass was then executed. The sound of the knife
made Rouseel tremble greatly, and his whole frame
shook for some time ; but he regained confidence, and
gave himself up to his execution, and soon • after thi
crowd dispersed in silence.
•
THE CitlE or AlimeaL M`CAni.—We are glaS
to learn that intelligence was received on Wednesday,
by. Mr. Jackson, of York, solicitor for ll•Cabe, to the
effect that this unfortunate convict's case is undergoing
further consideration in. the office of the Secretary of
State. Mr. Justice Patteson, by whom IL`Cab• was
tried, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on., Tuesday.—Leeds Mercury.
HIGHWAY Rohnieni.—On Saturday night last,
about half-past seven o'clock, a hawker named Curran,
residing at Greenside, was returning home from
Prudhoe, and when about 100 yards from Mr. An-
derson's farm-house, at Kye, he was stopped by two
men, whe sprung out of the hedge, knocked him down,
and after several ineffectual struggles on the part of
Curran, in which he received some severe blows, they
succeeded in rifling his right-hand breeches pocket of
the money it contained, which consisted of more than
41. in silver and then made their escape. Curran, it
appears, had a larger sum in hie possession in another
pocket wrapped in a purse; but his cries for assistance
brought the inmates of the farm-house to the spot, and
being alarmed at their approach, the villains hastily
abandoned their victim and fled. No trace has Yet
been discovered of the perpetrators of this daring out-
rage.—. Newcastle Guardian.
Monsieur Alexandre Dumas made a sad mistake
when he visited Madrid. Ho inscribed his visiting cards,
with the words—" Alexandre Dumas, Escribetno,'
thinking to dazzle the poor Spaniards' eyes with the
advent of a genuine homnie de lettres. In fact he was
received in a very flattering manner, but at the same
time was not a little perplexed, as well as mortified, to
find his appearance in a salon invariably the signal for
suppressed laughter. It was some time before he dis-
covered the meaning of this enigma. In Spain a literary
man is called Escritor, a notary Escribano, so that poor
M. Dumas had actually announced himself as a notary!

11.114TR.5.
On the 18th inst., at Lovrrides-square, the Lady Mary
Egerton, of a daughter.
On the 2id ult., at Madeira, the wife if James W. Brongh•
to Esq., A., of a son, still- born.
On the 15th inst., at Porchester-terrace, the wife of Joseph
Hardcastle, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son.
OR the 16th inst., in Upper George• street, the wife of Joh*
Philpot Curran, Esq., barrister-at •law, of a son.
On the 18th inst., in Upper Brook-street, the lady of R•
Arabin, Esq., of a daughter.

RIED.
On the 16th inst., at AlMAR
va House, North Britain, Captain
Lord Frederick C. P. Beauclerk, R.N., to Jemima Eleonora
Johnstone, sixth daughter of the late James Johnstone, Esq'' •
of Alva.

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On the 15th ult., at Barrio Upper Canada, Captain John
Moberly, R.N.
Oa the 9th inst., at Lausanne, in SwitEerlaad,
Colonel Charles S. Carjat, formerly of the Royals, or 131
Dragoons.
On the 18th inst., at the Grore, Clapham •road, 2013'.7
Anne, the wife of Alfred l'omlins, aged 39.

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