The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.

Very early on Monday morning, about three
o'clock, the inhabitants of Upper North-street,
Brighton, and its neighbourhood, were alarmed by
piercing cries from several female voices of " Murder"
and "Police," and in a short time a few members of
the police force, with the stragglers home, whom the
festive season made more numerous than usual, dis-
covered at the spot whence the cries proceeded the
dead but still bleeding body of a man, stretched on
his back in the middle of the road.

One of the neighbours, named Wootton, was the
first on the spot, and at his request Mr. Richardson,
surgeon, promptly made his appearance. His aid,
however, was unavailing. The man had suffered
from a fatal wound which severed the wind-pipe and
principal arteries, and death must have been instan-
taneous or nearly so.
From inquiry made on the spot and in the imme-
diate neighbourhood, and likewise of the police, we
gleaned the particulars which we subjoin :
The deceased was named William Henry Marshall.
He was a butler out of place, and his age was about
forty years. His last engagement was in the family
of Captain Preston, a magistrate, where it appears he
was not comfortable, and his wife states that he had
several times stated his apprehension that he should
in consequence take his own life. This service he had
left about eighteen months, and ever since he had been
in a low way. Within the last few days he had ob•
tained temporary employment at the family of Mr.
Lawrence, an eminent surgeon of the place. Here
he had conducted himself remarkably well. He ap-
peared elated at the circumstance of his having at
length obtained employment, but Mr. Lawrence, jun.,
believes that he neither slept nor drank during the
time he was in the house. He was as usual on Sun-
day night, and at eleven o'clock turned off the gas
from the main.

At three o'clock in the morning of Monday his wife
was awoke by a knocking at the door, and having
descended the stairs and ascertained that her husband
was at the door, she admitted him into the house.
On opening the door she observed that her hus-
band was almost in a state of nudity. He was
even without his trousers. What did he return
home for in that state ? she inquired. He replied
"To kill you," and suiting the action to the word,
he seized her by the shoulders, and then grasped her
throat. Nearly naked as she was she rushed into the
street, followed by her husband, who caught her in
the middle of the road. They there struggled to-
gether till she fell, and he upon her. She raised the
cry of " Police," and a lodger that of "Murder and
thieves," and the wife then effected her escape. As
she ran off she saw a razor in his hand, and he having
raised himself again fell. She then returned to him
and found the blood gushing from a large gash in his
throat, and a razor lying he3ide him. By this time
assistance came to the spot, and the surgeon was sent
for, and soon arrived, as stated above. But death
speedily followed the infliction of the wound.
An inquest was held in the evening at the Wind-
mill Tavern, before Mr. F. H. Gell, coroner for East
Sussex, when the above facts having been elicited in
evidence, the jury returned a verdict " Temporary
Derangement."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, DEC. 31.

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STOCK EXCHANGB.—The share market was pretty-active
to-day, still a fair amount of business was transacted at fa-
vourable rates. The only variation in prices was in Great
Western Steck, which opened at 771 i, and closed at 78.
LIVERPOOL, Ditc. 31.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been steady to-day.
The transactions were as follow :—Caledonian, 10%—East
Lancashire, 121,E—Great Northern (B), 11—Lancashire, and
Yorkshire, Consolidated, 57—Ditto, Fifths' 7 5-16 die.—
London and North-Western, 1231—Ditto New Quarters,
334 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 26—Mid
laud, 471,,,—Ditt0, Halves, 20% dis,—South-Eastern and
Dover, 2234—York and North Midland, 2234—Rouen :and
Havre, 107'9.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 31.
STOCK ExerIANGIC.—The share market was dull to-day,
and prices had a downward tendency. The transactions
were as follow : Caledonian, 1014—Chester and Holyhead,
Preference, 1414—Eastern Counties, 6 346—Great Northern,
17%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 561,4 n—Ditto, Fifths,
7 5.16 dis.—London and North-Western, 1241/Q n.—Ditto,
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 244 p.—Mid-
land, 501. Shares, 19 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 22.1 c.
BIRMINGHAM, De:c. 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was again dull to-day.
The only transactions reported were—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham "(A ), dis.—Ditto (B), 4.% dis.—Shrop-
shire Union, 3t dis.
YORK, DEC. 30.
STOCK EXCHANGII. —The transactions to-day were as
follow : —Great Northern, 17%—North British, 9—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 19—York and North Midland, 23%.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM FIRE,Anms.--Last
Wednesday, as a party of young men were amusing them-
selves in a public-house at Trull, one of them seeing a gun
over the mantel-piece took it down, and not- knowing it to
be loaded pointed it at his companions, when suddenly it
exploded, and lodged a full charge of shot in the neck of a
young man named Warman, a baker of the town, and
though medical attendance was immediately procured, and
everything done which the case required, yet we are sorry to
say there is no likelihood of his surviving.—Sherborne
&ercurq.