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London, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

Cloths and lierseymeies, similar tissues and felts

Common, from 4f. to 9f. a kilog. inclusively 7O
Middling, from above 9f. to 18f. a kilog. inclusively 105
Fine, from above 18f, a kilog. inclusively
Light Tissues :
Common, from 3f. to Bf. a kilog. inclusively 6O
Middling, from Bf. to 151. a kilog. inclusively B5
Fine, from above 15f. a klieg. inclusively llO
Blanketing and Swanskin :
Common, from 21. 50c. to 6f. 50c. a kilog. inclusively 45
Middling, from above 6f. 50c. to 10f. a kilog. inclu-
sively
Fine, from above 10f. a kilog. inclusively
Oriental Hosiery :
Common, from 101. to 15f. a kilog. inclusively
Middling, from above 15f. to 25f. a kilog. inclusively 135
Fine, from above 25f. a kilog. inclusively
Ordinary hosiery, fine tapestry, light goods, and
carpeting of pure wool :
Common, from 3f. to Bf. a kilog. inclusively
Fine, from above Bf. a kilog, inclusively lOO
Tissues mixed with wool and other materials :
Tissues of cotton or of goat's hair or camel's hair,
with or without the addition of silk, where the
wool forms more than half of the mixture, and
worth at least 3f. a kilogramme 35
Tissues of cotton only, the wool not forming more
than the half and worth at least 2f. 60c. a kilog. 25
Tissues of wool and silk containing at least 75 per
cent, of wool
Tissues of wool and silk floss containing at least 60
per cent. of wool
Shawls.—As the tissues of which they consist with
addition, for figured shawls, of 30 per cent. if the figur-
ing covers at least a quarter of the surface of the tissue,
and of 60 per cent., if it extends over at least three-
fourths of this surface, per 100 kilog.
Ready-made Articles of clothing (the set of 25 kilog.
at the least).—As the tiscnes of which they consist,
making a deduction on account of linings and all ma-
terials used in the making, but which have no right to
the bounty.
General Regulation.—The export bounty will only be
allowed on yarn and tissues of wool, pure or mixed, of
which the quantities shall call for the awarding of these
said bounties to the amount of 18f. at least.
Provisional Regulation.—The bounties awarded above
shall not be applicable until six months after the date of
the present decree.

Penalties with regard to the Bounties.—With respect
to drawback and bounties, the penalties announced by
the articles 1 (section II.) of the law of July 5, 1836 ;
10, of the law of May 6, 1844 ; 4 and 5, of the law of
June 11, 1845, shall be enforced hereafter in every case,
where the sworn commissioners of the government shall
have found inaccuracy in the declarations, even when
no official report or conservative deed should have been
previously drawn up by the Custom-house agents.
Nevertheless, when yarns and tissues of wool, pure or
mixed, are to be sent as exports, no penalty is to be in-
flicted when the reductions pronounced by the sworn
commissioners or the government shall not lower by
more than one class the products, the bounty on which is
calculated on the weight combined with the value, or
when the decisions of the said sworn commissioners shall
not show that no bounty at all is due.

ATROCIOUS MURDER OF A WOMAN.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 21.—This morning, about half-past
6 o'clock, an atrocious murder was committed in Wolfe-
street, Toateth-park, by a man named John Williams,
alias John Ferguson, alias John Fake, his victim being
a woman named Sarah Drummond.

The prisoner, whose real name is said to be John Fer-
guson, and who has been long known to the police as a
thief and the associate of thieves, went this morning at
a few minutes past 6 o'clock, along with the female, to
the Ruthin Castle public-house, in Prince William-street,
where they had some ale, and went away. IR about 10
minutes aftprwards, the prisoner returned, and said to a
man named Thomas, " I've cut your wife's- throat,"
an assertion which, in the sequel, proved only too true.
It appears that Ferguson has cohabited with the wo-
man Drummond for the last 12 months or better, and
that prior to her going to live with the prisoner, in
whose mother's house they both resided, she had lived
witii the man Thomas, by whom she had two children.

After leaving .the Ruthin Castle public-house they
went to the prisoner's mother's, where they kad some
slight altercation, when the prisoner suddenly drew a
knife across the woman's throat, inflicting so frightful a
wound as to occasion her death in a few minutes.
The mother of the prisoner states that when her son
and the deceased came in she was in bed and heard som•
angry words between them, when she suddenly heard
the deceased utter a gurgling sort of sound, as if some-
thing was in her mouth, and the prisoner said, " Come
now, Sal, I'll take thee to the hospital," and they both
left the house. On getting up the mother saw a large
track of blood on the floor and over the threshold of the
house, No. 87, Prince William-street, where she lived.
Thomas Ryecroft, who resides in Edward-street off
Wolfe-street, heard a woman shriek about half-past 6 this
morning, and going in the direction indicated by the
sound, he found the deceased lying on the footway, with
her throat cut, and blood flowing profusely from the
wound.

Police-inspector Creston had his attention called to a
cry of murder in Wolfe-street, and on going forward,
found the deceased lying on the footway, and quite
dead.

INl‘Culloch, the detective officer, after a considerable
search, discovered on a dust-heap, a clasp pocket-knife,
which was afterwards identified as belonging to the pri-
soner. It was completely covered with blood, and no
doubt can be entertained that this was the instrument
with which the fatal wound was inflicted.

The murderer was secured immediately on his stating
to the man Thomas that he had cut the poor woman's
throat. After he had been conveyed to Bridewell it was
discovered that the prisoner had endeavoured to commit
suicide by cutting his own throat, and that in his attempt
to do so, he inflicted a considerable, though not a dan-
gerous, wound on the right side of his neck.
He is a dirty, insignificant-looking wretch, of very low
stature and forbidding aspect, and presents altogether a
contemptible appearance. As already stated, he is well
known to the police as a person of very bad character,
and it is believed that the immediate cause of quarrel
between him and his wretched victim was an opinion
which he entertained that she had betrayed some of his
companions into the bands of the police. Three of these
companions, named respectively Thomas Garnett, John
I.l`Bryde, and Robert Roberts, the two first-named being
ticket-of-leave men, were this morning committed for
trial on a charge of burglary ; and it is rumoured that
they were apprehended in consequence of information
given by the deceased. One of the female companions
of the deceased states distinctly that several days since
Drummond said to the prisoner in her hearing, that she
would have "them snitched soon." To which the
prisoner replied, "If she did he would cut her throat."
The prisoner was brought before the magistrates, at
the police-court, this forenoon, when the case was heard
in a merely formal way, and he was remanded to abide
the result of a coroner's inquest, which is fixed to take
place to-morrow.

A SUSPICIOUS VESSEL—ST. HELENA, Nov. 22.—The
Dido (Brown), which arrived here yesterday from Hon-
deklip Bay, Cape of Good Hope, bound to Swansea, re-
ports that on the second day after leaving Hondeklip
outer roads, being then in about lat. 29 S., she was
chased and fired at by a large frigate mounting about 60
guns. The Dido hoisted the American ensign, when
the frigate kept away after a large ship to the westward
and tbick weather coming on nothing could be seen; but
the report of cannon was distinctly heard.
THE ATTEMPT TO POISON A WIPE.—NEVIOASTLE-ON-
TYNE, Jan, 18.—Thomas Robson who was remanded
on Monday by the magistrates at the Manor police-
court in this town, on a charge of having attempted to
poison his wife, was brought up again to-day, when
Jane Temperley gave her evidence, showing a motive
for this atrocious act. She stated that she was 27 years
of age, and resided in the village of Acomb, near Mex-
ham. She knew the prisoner by the name of William
Wilson. She became acquainted with him about July,
and continued to keep his company until the first week
in November. He paid his addresses to her as her
sweetheart, and expressed a wish to marry her. He
represented himself as an unmarried man. His wife
came to Acomb, and the acquaintance then broke off.
She had no more interviews with him after his wife
came to Acomb. The prisoner was committed for trial
at the assizes, charged mith administeting sugar of lead
to his wife with a view to kill her,