The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-04 00:00:00

A. TRADESMAN SUPPOSED TO B! POI-
SONED BY HIS WIFE AT BOLTON.

THE LAST OF "TH Pi GARD EN."

LITERATURE.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY,

Tr e sale of the instrumental and 'vocal scores, band
parts, and of the operas, pantomimes, meld iranias, and
other musical pieces, produced at the late C( went-garden
Thea,t re, which took place yesterday at the auction-room
of Me ssrs. Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden, 'O.ll astonish
and a, Enoy the musical world in general. TI is re was but
very 1 ittle competition, and the consequent was that
the pri e•es realised were fabulously low ; hunt the most
extrao, inary fact is, the works of Sir Healry Bishop
were re lo re at a disc.,unt than any other co reposer, his
produc ti, ma never realising above a few shillinzs—
" Clari, " with the prompt-book, going for is. ; "The
Comed'? of Errors," and prompt-hook, 2s. ; " Fortu-
natus,". 2s. ; " Henri Quatre," ; " Tlie Land of
Zada," :and prompt-book, 2s. 61 ; " Maid Marian,"
and pts a apt-book, 3s. 6cl. ; " The Miller and his Men,"
10s. ; multis aliis. Rooke's opera, " :ffenrique,"
brougb t 11. ss. ; Rossini's " Cinderella," 21. -4s. ; " Fra
Diavol )," 4/. Bs. ; " Der Freischntz," .15s. ; and
" Ober o n," together with the original score, 4/. and
some f r shillings.
The ;pantomimes, including " Mother Goone," " Mo-
ther S hipton," " Harlequin Padmanaba," and the re-
maindt c' of the Grimaldi school, obtained a few shillings
each ; - fact, had the sale taken place as one of waste
paper 1 e amounts realised could not be niers ridicu-
lously et nall. Among the persons present we recognised
Messrs 1, Lacy, (of Wellington-street), Boleno, Tanner,
Sheph' jrd, Creswiek, J. B. Johnson, J. Johnson Towers,
W. H . Payne, Henry Manley, A. Harris, blioore (late
of the and Charles Slornan, the English improvisa-
tore. '1 "he second day's sale takes place this day (Fri-
day), N v hen the journals, account-books, receipts with
autogn chs of celebrated actors and actresses, scarce
play-bi' ll s, &e., will be brought beneath the hammer.

Considerable excitement was created in Bolton, on
Wednesday morning, by a report that Mr. Daniel
M‘Mulleu, flour dealer, of Moor-lane, had died at two
o'clock that morning, and that his wife was in custody
on suspicion of having poisoned him. On inquiry we
found that the rumour was well funded, and that the
case was likely to turn out a serious one. The motive
a,signed was an insurance policy for 1001., effected 18
months ago, in the Prince of Wales Insurance Office, on
the joint lives of the deceased and his wife, the money
being payable on the death of either of them.
It appears that Mr. M‘Mullen was taken ill eight or
ten days ago, and that he called in Mr. Dorrian, slur-
gem), Blackourn-street. In attending him Mr. Dor-
rian was astonished at the symptoms manifested by his
patient ; and on watching them attentively he became
convinced that he was labouring under the effects of
poison. Mr. Dorrian then obtained from the servant
a portion of some tea made by Mrs. M‘Mullen, and
given to her husband on Tuureday last. He also got
a portion of his urine, sc., discharged that day, and
being analysed by Mr. H. H. Watson, analytical che-
mist, were found to contain tartarised antimony. This
re4ult was obtained on Saturday, and then Mr. Dorrian
called in Dr. Chadwick to his assistance. After a con-
sultation, these gentleme❑ placed the deceased under the
care of a nurse, in order that they might be certain that
nothing was given to him bat what they ordered.
On Tuesday the medical gentlemen became convinced
that their patient could not recover, and Mr. Dorrian,
therefore, felt it his duty to communicate the facts to
Mr. Harris the superintendent of the borough police.
Mrs. M'Mullen was, therefore, apprehended on Tuesday
afternoon on suspicion of having administered poison
to her husband. On her being removed to the police-
office she at once admitted that there was a powder sold
by some druggists called " quietness," which was said
to have the quality of breaking husbands of drunkenness
and other bad habits ; and that she had given her hus-
band some of this, but not since the last week but one.
The powder, she stated, was obtained of Mr. J. R.
Simpson, druggist, Deansgate. Mr. Simpson admits
that he sells such powders, and one of them was fur-
nished to the police, containing 5 grains of tartarised
antimony and 15 grains of cream of tartar, which he
said were always sold with strict injunctions that the
quantity furnished must be given in four doses.
A post mortem examination of the bedy of the de-
ceased was held on Wednesday afternoon by Mr. Dor-
nen and Dr. Chadwick, Mr. Snape being in attendance
on behalf of the accused. The contents of the stomach
will be analysed by Mr. H. 11. Watson, analytical che-
mist, Boston.

HEINRICH HEINE.

:51ARKET NEWS.—(This Day.

CORN EXCHANGE.

Notwsr;listanding that the show of English wheat in to-
day's m ► rket was limited, we have to report a very dull
sale for a 11 kinds, and we had no buyers except at reduced
prices.
Only 3 ,750 quarters of foreign wheat have come to hand
this we( 1:; nevertheless the trade was heavy, at almost
nominal currencies. Floating cargoes of grain commanded
less atte ktion.

r and malt were in short supply, and heavy re-
quest, a t barely late rates.
The a I pply of foreign oats was larger, and the oat trade
was dul I, on rather lower terms.
In be ?ins, peas, and flour very little was doing, at barely
station; pry prices.

ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
£ngllah 1.740 I 2,960
Irish
Foreign 1 3,750 3,070 I

Mrs. M'Mullen is the daughter of a highly-respectable
Lradesman, whose family are thrown into the deepest
distress by this melancholy event.

Oats. I Flonr.
120 I 810
2,270
25,440 2'580
sacks

TEN TOM'S OF MhAT WAMD.

J hi ETROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

The following letter has been addressed by Mr. Wm.
Cobbett to a contemporary :
Sir,—Where there is great waste there should be
great plenty, and I, therefore, beg to congratulate you
and the public at large on the said waste, which, as I
hear, occurred at Newgate-market last Monday, when
and where no less than 10 vanloads of prime meat stunk
for want of buyers ! But how for want of buyers, sir,
when we know in upon market such goods must always
fetch something The explanation given is in the
price, viz , ss. 4d. per 81b., being one-fourth, if not a
third, higher than it ever was before up to the rise within
the last few years.
_ _

The s apply of beasts in to-day's market was limited, and
all bree, is sold briskly, at an advance in the quotations rea-
lised on Monday last of 2d per Blbs. We had a good de-
mand f( s • sheep, the show of which was small, at 2d per
Sibs mo n 3 money. There was a much better feeling in the
lamb ti i ,de, and tho currencies improved 2d per Sibs.
Although we were extensively supplied with calves, the
veal trail.) was active, and prices advanced ld per 81bs.
Pigs wood ) firm, but not dearer.
Mulch cows were steady, at from 141 to 191 5s each, in-
cluding their small calf.

Well, but price is an effect depending on supply and
demand,. and is not a cause; and how could high prices
have such a tendency to waste t Nevertheless, so it is ;
and, however, in the first place, one serious apprehen-
sion is removed, viz.—scarcity, which has been the
cause assigned for these high prices.
It appears, sir, that the sellers rule the market. Last
week the price was ss. lid. The way they appear to
deal is thus :—You, the consumer, cannot pay our price
to-day, therefore go without your dinner, and save up
your money until to-morrow, against which time we will
hold our meat for you, and then you will be able to pay
for a dinner. But it so happened that Monday followed
a very warm Sunday and night, and the meat would not
then bear this put-off. The sellers had reckoned without
their host, and Dame Nature, having in this instanoe to
do with perishables, revealed all the secret of the scar-
city and of the war making the high prices. If it had
not been for this accidental revelation, the public would
have gone on in the most implicit faith in those alleged
causes of the starvation prices to which it was becoming
habituated. It is well for us, therefore, that these 10
vanloads (enough to dine about 100,000 of us) were
thrown away as a good antidote to the fallacy of scar-
city ; and therefore it is also well for us that the article
was perishable, or it would have been held back in safe
clutches until such time as we paid the price or more, or
absolutely starved, and we should never have been any
wiser as to the cause.

I understand that the way those principally concerned
in the supply are now coping with all circumstances, and
so as to guard against a recurrence of such waste, is, not
by lowering the price ; no, no, but by being still more
reserved in the supply. Row the general mass of sellers
can act as one incorporated or combining body might be
supposed to act, in a way which it could not be supposed
discontented individuals would act, may be almost in-
scrutable ; but the fact evidently is that they do so, and
no doubt upon the truest principles for their own pecu-
niary profit. The only questions are, why are all their
ears left on, and when will some of them be cropped ?

THE SUN, LONDON FRI DA. Y 'EVE ti IN el, J ULY 4, 1856

Heinrich Ileine's Book of Songs. A Translation,
by John E. Wallis. Chapman and Hall.

Scarcely—thought we, on opening this volume—
scarcely three months have elapsed since that
melancholy 18th of February when poor Heinrich
Heine expired : and lo ! already (purporting no
doubt to be his all but living and breathing effigy)
here are the mere dry bones of hiin—a caput mor-
tuum grinning at us from the top of a skeleton.
Empty sockets only where once shone forth upon
the world the radiant tearful eyes of the lyric philo-
sopher ! The eloquent tongue perished altogether
out of the jaws no longer covered by the mobile
lips breathing so often the language of passion i❑
the accents of pathos, and smiling perpetually upon
Grief like the beautiful old Shakeperean phantasy
of Patience upon the Monument. Here again,
thought we, as we mused momentarily over the
title-page, here again, in lieu of the old familiar
face, the face beloved as familiar, here again, as so
often before, we have of course but the grimliest
skull tricked out with- a garland, a death's-bed
crowned with a wreath of blooming flowers, a
coroual of roses, and violets, and carnations ! An-
other German poet "done into English" posthum-
ously—another vapid translation—a decanted flask
of champagne—a butterfly with the gold and velvet
of its wings fingered " off" deplorably—a mere
handful of withered leaves gathered from under
branches clustered with blossoms in the spring time-_
and heavy with fruit in the autumn-season, dry-
dead leaves now instead of either mellow fruit or
fragrant blossoms.