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

TALLOW.

Our market, from the unwillingness on the part of the
chandlers to increase their stocks at present rates, has
ruled heavy since our last report, and prices have de-
clined fully is. per cwt. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted
at 52s 9d per cwt. For forward delivery scarcely •
transaction can be noticed. Town Tallow 53s 6d not
cash; roughlfat, 3s per 81bs.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DA Y.)
(Before Lord Daxmax at Guildhall, and a Special Jury.)
DAWSON V. HAY.

This action was brought to recover 4754 4s. 11d. from
the defendant, as one of the provisional committee of
the Shrewsbury and Leicester Direct Railway Company.
Sergeant Shee and Mr. Lush appeared for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Martin for the defendant.
The plaintiff is an advertisement agent, and the sea
he sought to recover was for the insertion of the com-
pany's advertisements in the London newspapers. It sp-
peered that the committee, iu order to satisfy the claims
upon the company, came to a resolution calling upon
each provisional committeman to pay 721., and all who
paid that sum were to be protected from any further
claims. The present plaintiff, as one of the company's
creditors, consented to that arrangement. The defen-
dant paid 72/. in accordance with that resolution ; bat
several committeemen having neglected to contribute, it
was found necessary to make a further call of 904 each,
to which the defendant refused to pay, and this action
was instituted against him.

Lord DENMAN intimated his opinion, that the plaintiff
had no right to bring this action after such an arrange'
ment had been entered into, and ordered the plaintiff to
be called.

Mr. Sergeant SHEE submitted that the plaintiff
claim, independently of any such arrangement, was
binding upon all the provisional committee, and trusted
that if the plaintiff was nonsuited, he should hare the
liberty to move the Court upon the points in the cue.
His LORDSHIP thought it was a case in which the
plaintiff should hare liberty to move, but unless the
defendant consented to it, ho must simply order a
nonsuit to be entered.

Mr. MARTIN said ho could not consent.
The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY)
ATTEMPTED MURDER.—This morning, long before
the hour arrived for the opening of the court, the avenues
thereof were thronged with a number of persons, all
anxious to gratify their curiosity by catching a glimpse
of James Parker, who was brought up before Mr. Binge
ham, in custody of Inspector Dodd of the F division,
charged with cutting and wounding Elias. Burgess and
Mary Ritchie with a knife, with intent to murder them.
The prisoner, who is a journeyman tailor, and of very
dissipated and careworn appearance, seemed deeply to
feel the position in which he was placed, and leant his
head on the rail of the dock during the examination.
Inspector Dodd, after explaining the nature of the
charge against the prisoner, produced the surgeon's cer-
tificate, of which the subjoined is a copy it--
" Mary Ritchie and Eliza Burgess are both (although
doing tolerably well) unable to attend the court to-day,
and will probably not be able to do so for a fortnight.
Mary Ritchie is still in very considerable danger.
(Signed) "J.W. B. STEGGALL,
" House Surgeon, Charing-cross Hospital."
The only witness called was Mary Aan Walker,:26e
Dudley-street, who, on being sworn, said—Yesterday.
morning, between eleven and twelve, I was sitting in m
own room when I heard the prisoner come indoors an&
go up stairs into Elisa Burgess's room. Shortly after r
heard them at high words, and I went on to the stairs
to listen. I then heard a noise and a dreadful scream--
ing proceed from the room. I went to the room door
and saw the prisoner with a knife in his hand, and saw"
him strike at Mrs. Ritchie with it. I then saw hi.c
strike Eliza Burgess. The prisoner then laid hold of
Mary Ritchie and pushed her down stairs. I tried t
get Eliza Burgess away. The prisoner resisted my"
attempt, and stabbed Eliza Burgess in the back. The'
knife produced is the ono I saw in the prisoner's hull.-
I subsequently saw blood streaming from Elise. Burgess's,
back on to my arm. I got Elisa Burgess and Mary •
Ritchie down stairs, when I saw blood streaming dow3
the legs of the latter, who was severely wounded in th P'
abdomen. The prisoner was sober at the time, Anil
threatened if I went into the room he would serve me)
the same manner. Eliza Burgess and Mary Bitch] 10
were then conveyed to the hospital, and the police, wh,
had previously arrived, took the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner, in defence, said—l was out all Saturday'
night, drinking in the Rookery. In the morning 'ivy
(Burgess) followed me out, and we had some word
together, and separated. I then went to a shoemaker's , •
and got a knife, intending to frighten and not to stale'
them.
There being no further evidence produced,
Mr. BilicuAr4 remanded the prisoner till Monday, th‘
6th of March.

THE EXECUTION OF lIARRIET
PARKER—(THIS DAY.)
At eight o'clock this morning the above wretch& t
woman, who was tried and convicted of the murder
two children of the man Blake, underwent the dreadful
penalty of the law in the presence of an immense eon-
course of spectators.
Since her conviction, she has exhibited a deep and •
firm repentance. On one occasion she said to the Rev.,:
Mr. Davis, the Ordinary, that she did not know whether
it was hardness of heart, or hope of forgiveness, that ',
kept her up. That she deeply and sincerely repented of
what she had done, and that she justly and richly de- '
served the ignominious death she was to suffer. This '
state of mind continued up to the final moment which
separated her from this world. On Sunday she attended •
the condemned sermon, and retired from the chapel witli •
the same firmness as she displayed from the period of
her committal.
The unfortunate woman remained up until two o'clock
this morning, passing her time in prayer and reading
the Bible. She then slept for about three hours, when •
she rose, and at six o'clock she was joined by the Be!.
Ordinary, and remained in deep and religious communiu!s
with him. About twenty minutes before eight o'oloolL
she sung in a deep clear voice a hymn, with a firinnell

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that surprissd those who have been in the habit of
i ls.st •
okieneci. A few minutes beiuro eight o'clock she ,vas
'arken out of the room in which she had been placed since
her trial, into what is termed the broad-room, where the
act of pinioning and tying the lower parts of her gar-
ments was performed. She then thanked the Sheriffs
and Under-Sheriff's, and the
_matron, for their uniform
kindness to her, and she proceeded to the scaffold.
Within two minutes after eight o'clock the law was satis-
fied by her death.
The wretcheci woman was aryssed in deep mum ning
She appeared to suffer much. The last words she
uttered was, " May the Lord have mercy on me." After
hanging the usual time, she was conveyed into the gaol,
when a bust of her face was taken, previously to her
being interred within the gaol.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
LYME REGIS.
This Committee met at the usual hour; Lord Ashley
in the chair.
Mr. Bird, engineer, was called, and questioned by the
Chairman as to his having disobeyed the summons of
the Committee by not appearing on Saturday. The
witness stated that he received the summons late on
Friday night, and he did not immediately obey it
because he laboured under the impression that the Com-
mittee did not sit on Saturday, and, moreover, he had
280 labourers to pay on that day. The witness was
then examined by Mr. Sergeant Wrangham. He stated
that he was the nominal contractor of some works on the
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, near
to Moreton in the Marsh, in Gloucestershire. He was
acting under a body of which Mr. Abdy was a member,
and he had in his employment a man named Clyde, who
Was recommended to him by Mr. Abdy, the sitting
Member.

KINSALE.
The Kinsale Election Committee re-assembled this
morning; Mr. Bouverie in the chair.
Mr. ANDREWS addressed the Committee at some
length on behalf of the sitting Member, and stated that
he should be able to prove that the case which the peti-
tioners had attempted to make out was a fabrication
from beginning to end. He should have refrained from
calling witnesses had this been an ordinary case, but the
characters of so many parties had been jeopardised by
the testimony of the other side that he felt constrained
to go into evidence that he would otherwise have kept
back. This evidence would show that Mr. Guinness's
supporters had been subjected to the most unjust perse-
cution—those of them who were Roman Catholics had
been denounced from the altar, while others had been
compelled to have recourse to the columns of a public
Journal to repel the foul attacks which the priest of Kin-
sale made upon them.