The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-04 00:00:00

GLASGOW, DECEMBER 1.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 181A—
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51. ls.—Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction, 40s.—
Great Southern of Madras, Bs. 3d.—Manchester and South-
ampton, 28s. 6d.—.North British, Thirds, 725. 6d.—Ditto,
New Quarters (scrip), 31s. 6d.—Scottish Central, 191/2
Strathern Junction, 78s.

THE MURDER BY POISONING.
SUDBURY, DEC. I.—ln The Sun of Monday last was
a notice of an inquest held on the previous Friday, at
Acton, near this town, on the body of John Foster, who
was deelared by the verdict of the jury to have been
wilfully poisoned by his wife, Catherine Foster, three
weeks after marriage. By many it was thought that the
evidence was far from being conclusive against the
woman, and that it did not warrant the returningof such
a verdict. Since then, however, disclosures have been
made which tend to strengthen the presumption that the
poison was intentionally administered to the deceased by
his young wife. The coroner, Mr. Wayman, met the
jury yesterday for the purpose of having the usual
criminal inquisition document signed by the jury, when
the superintendent of police intimated to the Court that
the boy Morley, a brother of the accused, who had been
examined at the previous investigations, was in posses.
sion of more facts in reference to the death of the de-
ceased than he had stated at the former inquiries. It
should be mentioned that at the last meeting of the jury
this lad made it appear that his sister only made one
dumpling on the night the deceased wes taken ill, of
which he ate part with his sister. On the boy being re-
called, the coroner proceeded to examine him in very
pointed terms, and it was elicited from him that on the
evening his sister's husband was taken ill she made
" two" dumplings. She gave one of them to her hus-
band, and the other she ate with witness. The one they
had between them was a little one, and was made of the
rubbings of the pan, of which deceased did not partake.
He added that when the deceased came home from work
he and his sister had nearly finished their supper. After the
deceased was taken ill and had been put to bed. his sister
desired him to say that he had ate the same victuals as the
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Neither he nor his sister had any of the dumpling the
deceased ate. The deceased asked him to have a piece,
but his sister said he should not, and he bad not.
The CORONER directed the boy to lee placed under the
surveillance of the police of the district, it being evident
that he had been tampered with to a considerable eutent.
It was with much difficulty, and after great reluctance
on the boy's part, that the above important facts were
elicited from him.
Mary Ann Chivery, a fresh witness, was called. She
said she was a single woman, and lived with her grand-
father at Acton, next door to the house in which the
deceased resided. She remembered that on the day after
his death, while the surgeons were opening his body,
Catherine Foster, the deceased's wife, came into the
house and sat down. On coming in she said the doctors
were going to open John's body, and she could not bear
the thoughts of being within. She asked if she might
sit there while they were doing it ? and on being told
that she might, sat down on a chair by the fire. After
staying some time she observed to witness, "If I had
gone to Bury before I married I would not have married
him at all."

The inquisition was then duly signed, and the jury
dismissed. As yet it is difficult to arrive at a motive
that could have induced the accused to destroy her hus-
band. As before stated, she had been married to him
only three week exactly on the day of his death. She is
not 18 years of age, her appearance is somewhat good
looking, but very simple. Her countenance pourtrays
not the slightest hardihood, or anything indicating her
to be a person likely to commit such a crime. On being
informed by the coroner of the verdict of the jury, she
Seemed not the least affected by it, and on leaving the
roam merely said,
" She was sure she did not do it."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PRIVY COUNCIL, Dec. 3.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell sat
to-day at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords
present were Lord Brougham, the Master of the Rolls
(Lord Langdale), the Judge of the Admiralty Court
(Dr. Lushington), the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn-
wall (the Right Hon. Pemberton Leigh), Sir E. H. East,
and Sir E. Ryan.
/MIMI RAM AWASTY V. SHEO CIEWIN AWASTY._

The further arguments in this part-heard appeal from
the decision of the Supreme Court in Bengal were re-
sumed and concluded. The appeal arose out of a suit
originally instituted in the Provincial Court of Patna by
the appellant, suing in forma pauperis, for the recovery
of 85,135 sicca rupees, the fourth part or share of real
and personal estate, the joint and several property of the
respondents, bankers in the town of Shahalead, in the
presidency of Bengal, which the appellant claimed as a
member of the respondents' family, which he alleged was
an undivided Hindoo family.
Their LORDSHIPS, at the conclusion of the arguments
to-day, gave judgment, dismissing the appeal with costs.