The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-10 00:00:00

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ANOTHER MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-
HULL, MONDAY.—A wretched mother is now under the surveillance
of the police (being too ill to be brought before the magistrates),
against whom the double charge of wilfully taking the lite of her off-
spring, and attempting to terminate her own, will, upon her own
confession, supported by other evidence, in case of her recovery,
shortly be made. The facts were brought to light early this morn-
ing, when a man liaised Green and a constable, who were near the
watehliouse at the harbour side, saw something like a bundle of
clothes floatin; down the river. They took it out, and found it to be
the body of a woman, insensible, but not quite dead, which Was sup.
ported on the surface of the water by the air which inflated her dress.
On being taken to a neighbouring public-house, and medical men
called in, she recovered her speech, and said her name was Jefferies,
and that she had thrown herself and her child, aged three weeks,
into the river. That fact was connrmed by the finding of the body of
the infant—an extremely well-proportioned one—about four hours
afterwards, of course quite dead. The mother is unmarried—the
father stated to be " highly respectable," and residing in this town.
The inquest will be held as soon as the female is able to attend.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY.

The arrival of English Wheat for our market has been on a very
limited scale this week, consequently the samples of that article was
small. Still, however, the demand for all descriptions was in a very
inactive state, at about Monday's quotations. Foreign Wheat was
a dull inquiry, yet previous rates were steadily supported. A few
parcels of bonded found buyers, on certificates, at from 10s. to I Is.
per quarter. Barley and Malt moved off slowly at barely, but at
nothing quotable beneath, late rates. The supply of Oats being un-
usually short, the oat trade was steady, at very full prices. Beans,
Peas, and Flour as last advised.

Wheat.

ARRIVALS.
Barley.
150 qrs.

English
- • ••
• • " I ; qrs.

leih
Foreign

Malt, -- qrs.
WHITECHAPEL.

Oats I Flour.
-- qrs. -- sks.

We had a fair average supply of Meat on sale, while the demand
ruled tolerably steady at our quotations. Beef from 2s Gd to 3s 6d ;
Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s ; Lamb, 5s to Gs 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and
Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs by the carcase.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY.)

LONDON, JUNE 10,—Wind S.S.W., light breeze and cloudy.
DEAL, JUNE 9.—Wind W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Vernon, Voss, Cal-
cutta; Northumberland, Pollock, Madras ; Carnatic, Heyne, Bombay.
Arrd. from the liver, John King, westward. Sid. Maitland, Gray,
Van Dieumn's and ; Ganges, Walker, Bombay; Lord Collingwood,
Renardson, Quebec.
OFF PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 9.—Derwent, M'Pherson, Van Die
man's Laud; Wellington, Kenrick, Madras; Gladiator, Bunting,
New York.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 9.—Arrd. 8. Nunez, Flight, Rio Munez.
BRISTOL, JUNE 9.—Wind Feliza, rike, Trinidad;
Pomona, Smith, Trinidad ; Eleanor, Rees, Barbadoes ; Jessie, Muir,
Nevis ; Bowyer, Smith, St. John's, New Brunswick.
OFF TUSKAR, JUNE 6.—lnglewood,
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 9.—The Mastery, of Jersey, from Liverpool to
Rio Munez, was wrecked ou Sand Island, on April 13; crew saved.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9.—The Holywood is aground in the River Parr a

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

NOETH BRITISH AN D HAWICK BR P.NCIEL
The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the above
Bills met this morning at eleven o'clock, in room B (New Houses of
Parliament). The members are—Lord Abinger (chairman), the
Dukes of Buckingham and Grafton, Earl Burlington, and Lerd
Downes.

Mr. TALBOT appeared for the promoters of the Bill.
Their Lordships were occupied for more than an hour with a dis-
cussion as to the right of the trustees of the Kelso Union Roads to
oppose the Bill, on the grounds that by the diversion of traffic their
revenues would be greatly diminished. It was ultimately decided
that the opposition could not be entertained.
Mr. TALBOT then proceeded to address the Committee on the part
of the promoters of the Bill. He addressed the Committee very
shortly, stating that the proposed were two branches of
the existing North British Railway, to Selkirk and to Ha-
wick, and were proposed by the North British Railway
Company. The total length was 24 miles, and the esti-
mate was 350,0001. The line would give great accommodation to
a highly important district, namely, the neighbourhood of Kelso,
Selkirk, Berwick, Hawick, &c. &c. The only opposition was on
the part of the road trustees.
Mr. J. Miller, the engineer to the line. was then called,
and gave the usual engineering evidence at considerable
length. The length of the line and the estimate were as
stated by Mr. Talbot. The steepest ,;radient was 1 in 75, which
occurred on the Hawick branch, and the steepest gradient on the
Selkirk line was lin 200. The sharpest curve had a radius of three
furlongs.
The question of the admissibility of the opposition on the part of
the Kelso Union Trust was then revived. The matter was dis-
cussed at great length.

Mr.PIaERING (on the part of the trustees) proposed the inser•

Lion of a clause to the effect that the promoters should compensate
the trustees for any injury they should sustain, and that the amount
of compensation should be settled by private agreement, or in case
no such arrangement could be made, the matter should be referred to
the Sheriff of Berwick.

Mr. TALBOT would not agree to the introduction of this clause.
In the course of the desultory discussions to which this
question gave rise, Mr. PICKERING urged that, although road
trustees in England could not oppose railway Bills on acceunt of the
diminution of their revenues, yet trustees in Scotland ought
to be admitted to oppose on that ground, as they were
individually and personally bound, by bonds, to produce the
requisite funds for the construction of the roads, and
were liable even to personal arrest if they failed to prance
them—the English trustees not being bound by any such bond, and
not being personally liable.
Mr. TALBOT made an offer that the Railway Company should be-
come liable for one half of the bond due on the west branch of the
Kelso Union Roads, which he said was alone Influenced by this line.
➢lr. PICKERING refused to accede to this offer.

Mr. TALBOT having refer cd to the case of the Berwick and Sel-
kirk Bill, which passed the House of Commons last session, and in
which a clause similar to the present was proposed by the Kelso
Union Road Trustees, and was rejected,
Mr PICKERING called a witness, Mr. Corry, to prove that in
the case of the Berwick and Selkirk line the roads were actually
benefited, and the traffic increased ; and that that was the reason
why the opposition was not admitted ; but in this case a diminution
of revenue would be sustained by the road trustees.
The Committee ordered the room to be cleared, and on our re• ad-
mission, in about a quarter of an hour,
The CHAIRMAN said, the sole question which the Committee have

considered—and the sole question which they thought themselves

bound to consider—was whether the Kelso Union Road Trustees
were entitled to compensation from the North British Railway
Company, and they have come to the determination that they are
not so entitled.

The Bills being now unopposed,
The Committee passed both preambles, and having disposed of the
clauses, rose and dissolved at about a quarter past two o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XIII.
The Committee met to••day at twelve o'clock; Sir William Clay in
the chair.