The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-07 00:00:00

BANKING DEPAXTMEN T.

Proprietors 'capital.. 14,553,000
Rest • .. ...... 3,610,954
Public deposits (In-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-bank s, and Di-
vidend accounts).. 7,794,314
Other deposits • • 9,521,305
Sevon day and other

Government securi-
ties (including Dead

Weight Annuity).. 14,145 696
Other securities ...• 13,174 857
Notes ......... •• 8,536,665
Gold and silver coin • 676,181

Bills --- ———•• •• 1,033,5'26

£36,553.399

436,533,399
%f. ASARSIIALL, Chief Cashier
51.

Dated the 6th day of March, 1811

COURSE OF EXCHi
Am it enlath •• • • 11 164
three months .. 11 17%,
-totterdatn .... ••.. • • 11 17%
A.n twerp ••••••• • •• • • • • 25 30
Brussels • • •• 25 30
aanaburgh • • M.B. 13 7%
Altoona • • • • • . • • ***** • •

.N GE.-(THIS DAY,

iGibraltar.....

Leghorn ........••..•• 30 62%
(}enoa...• ••.....• •••• 25 64)i
Milan
Venice•••••••• •• ••••••

Naples 41%
Palermo, peroz ........ 1264
Messina .............. 125 4
6346
Oporto .• .. • • .....• .• • • 53%
Rio Janeiro ........ • •
Buenos Ayres .. • ••

Paris, 3 days'sight • • 25 7%
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 30
Marseilles .......... 25 30
Bourdeaux.... ••• . • .
Frankforton Maine.... 119%
Berlin • • ..............

1 New York, 60 days'sight

Vienna, effec. fib...—. 13 0
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 13 0
Petersburgh, Oil. Rble..
Madrid •••••• •• •• •• 43
Cadiz ... •• •• •• •• •• •• 54i
Barcelona •• •• •• ~ „ „

'Philadelphia

MOBS OP BULLION, PEE OX,
Foreign Geld in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

Seville.

Now Dollars .... • • 0 4 11%
Silver ha bars 0 5 1%

SALMON FISHING.—SinCe the Ist of February only
ten fish have been caught in the Doon. The take continues
to be very moderate in the Tay, but not more so than in an
average of seasons in February. The fish hitherto taken
have been almost uniformly large, and a few so very heavy
as to be exhibited for their size and symmetry. Prices in
London have varied from 2s. to Is. 6d. per lb. during the
last fortnight, according to the supply. A very erroneous
impression prevails as to the fall in the rents of the Tay
fishings. Some of the stations, no doubt, have fallen off, but
others have proportionably increased; and, on the whole,
the present rental of the river is about equal to what it was
twenty years ago Glasgow Constitutional.
BRISTOL, MARCH d N.N.E.—SId. Syballa,
Trinidad.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
.HOUR ClRCUlT.—Chelmsford, March 6.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice CAMP-
BELL.)
THE POISONINGS AT CLAV.ERING.
Sarah Chesham, 41, widow, a masculine-looking
woman, was indicted for the capital offence of feloni-
ously administering to Richard Chesham, her husband, a
quantity of arsenic, with intent to murder him.
This case excite d a good deal of interest, on account
of the terrible celebrity gained by the prisoner, and the
reputation she has of being a professed poisoner. She
was tried in 1847 at these asitizss upon a charge of
poisoning two of her children, but although the evi-
dence was moat cogent, and left very little doubt of her
guilt, she obtained a verdict of acquittal upon that oc-
ca,ion. She has since then been implicated in another
charge of poisoning, when she again escaped justice; and,
in 1849 a woman named May, who was convicted of poi-
soning her husband, and who was executed for that of-
fence, admitted after her conviction that she had been
instigated by the prisoner to the commission of Vie
dreadful act for which she suffered.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clerk conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner had no counsel, but one of the gentlemen
of the bar, at the request of. the Court, put such ques-
tions to the witnesses as she suggested to be material.
Mr. Boman. opened tho case in his usual char and
temperate manner. He intreated the jury to dismiss
from their minds all that they had heard or read in con-
nexion with the prisoner, and to be guided solely by the
evidence ; and he said that it was the more important
they should do SO, because he should be compelled, in the
course of the evidence, to make reference 'to a former
charge of the same description that was made against the
prisoner. He trusted, however, that they would not
allow this to prejudice the iequiry, but that they would
come to a decision upon the facts that were proved on
evidence relating solely to the present charge.
The following evidence was then adduced :
Sarah Chesham deposed that she was the mother of the
deceased, and at the time of his death she occupied part of
the same cottage with him and the prisoner at Clavering,
in this county. She then proceeded to make the following
statement:—l remember my son being very ill in the win-
ter of 1849. He was first taken about that time, and he
continued ill until the fallowing May, and he died in
that month. I was in the house with him shortly before
his death. He was not able to feed himself for several
days before he died, and the prisoner used to feed him
with milk thickened with flour or rice. I saw the pri•
soner give her husband something on the day before he
died, but Ido not know what it was. The prisoner did
not like anybody but herself to feed him, and she always
did so.
By the prisoner—I did not see anybody else give him
anything to eat but you. Some one may have given him
a cup of tea, but I know of nothing else.
The deposition of Mr. Willing, who was at the time
relieving officer of the union of which Clavering is a por-
tion, bus who has since died, was then put in and read.
It was to the effect that the prisoner applied to him for an
order for the doctor for her husband, and he gave her
one, and he subsequently repeatedly visit( d the deceased
at his cottage. He always complained of pain in his
chest, of continual vomiting, and also that his
body was swollen, that his bowels were con-
stantly out of order, and that he always felt sick.
Upon one occasion be showed him his body, which ap-
peared swollen to nearly double its ordinary size, and his
arms and legs appeared like those of a skeleton. The
prisoner pulled down the bedclothes to let him see her
husband, and while he was looking at him exclaimed,
" Poor thing. he will not be a trouble to any one long,"
She also told him that the deceased was continually
vomiting, and that if he got better for a day or two he
always relapsed again and became worse than before.
Mr. Hawkes said, I am the medical officer to the
Saffron Walden Union, and by direction of the relieving
officer I attended upon the deceased dfiring his illness.
I first saw him about the 11th of February, and he com-
plained of distension of the bowels and violent pain iu
the abdomen and sickness, and all these symptoms con-
tinued for a period of six weeks, when he was somewhat
better. The symptoms intermitted constantly, and some-
times they returned with greater, and sometimes with
less violence. The 'case was of such a nature that I
could not form any satisfactory opinion as to the nature
of the disease or its cause. All the symptoms, how-
ever, were such as would be the result of the adminis-
tration of small doses of some irritant poison. The
deceased also exhibited symptoms of a disease of the
lungs, and they continued until his death. A short
time before the death of her husband I told the pri-
soner that the nature of his disease was quite ob-
obscure, and that I thought she hap better have further
advice, but she declined, and said she was quite satisfied
with me. About this time I had talked in the village of
the necessity of having a post mortem examination of
the body in case death should occur, and the prisoner
came to me in a very angry mintier, and said that she
had been given to understand that I intended to cut her
husband's body open. I told her I hoped there would be
no occasion for it, and that her husband would get well.
I had sent medicine to the prisoner and to her son, but
none of it contained arsenic or any preparation of ar-
senic. The symptoms I hove mentioned continued until
the death of the deceased took place. I made a post
mortem examination 'of the body, and 'Ascertained that
the immediate elute) of death was dissase of the lungs.
I a erwards removed the stomach and the intestines and
their contents, and they were carefully seeled up and
subsequently submitted to Dr. Taylor fur annlyzatton.
By tho prisoner—I remember the first Sunday I saw
deceased in February, and also sending him some niedi•
tine and a piece of net rag to place upon his body. I
examined the body of the deceased before his destb, but
did not observe any appearance of a bruise or hurt
upon it,

Mr. Thomas Brown said--I am a surgeon, and reside
at Saffron Walden. I was previa at.the post mortem ex-
"alination or the deceased on the 20th of May, and as-

sisted Mr. Haakesiiiperformirg the operation, and in
removing the stomach and the intestines from the body,
and I afterwards saw them sealed up and deliv.:red to the

coroner, Mr. Lewis. I bud 80100 experience in cases
b_

of consumption, and I never saw any syinptoms4
griping and purging in the early stages of that disease.
I should attribute these symptoms solely to inflammation
of the stomach and the coats of the intestines, and if I
found them intermittent and returning with increased
violence, I should attribute them to some irritating sub.
SWIM being taken into the Atom* ell* in the food