The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.

The following telegram has been received from
Sir William Thomson :

MINO U, Tuesday.

Electric tests thoroughly satisfactory in Minou.
All right up to 6.45, Greenwich time, Tuesday

morning.

BOURSE, June 28.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :

4i per Cent. lOl 75
End of month
3 por Cent
End of month 7O 25
Credit Mobilier 243
End of month —
Credit Fonder 1583 '45
End of month — -
RAILWA'

Bank Shares 2840 --
Ital,an Fives 56 50
End of month — --
Ottoman Loan 330
Do. Debt 45 25
Spanish Threes 30 50
Home Debt _—
Deferred .

_ ...-
Cash
Orleans ... 9221
Northern „. 1092f
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 622f
Western 5824
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian 7661
Lombard sllk
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman s3k

THE AWFUL TRAGEDY IN THE CITY

LATEST PARTICULARS.—AIIP.IVAL OF Mss.
DUGGAN'S MOTHER.—(THIS DAY.)
The only ic of conversation among classes of
all description in the City this morning had refer-
ence to this fearful tragedy. All other subjects
appeared to have sunk into insignificance. As early
as nine o'clock a number of persons congregated in
front of Messrs. Chawner's premises, and eagerly
devoured everything having any bearing with the
crime, whether the information was correct or not.
The crowd, however, was by no means so dense to
yesterday, and the vehicles passing into the market
had no difficulty in reaching it. -
Owing to the activity displayed by the police in
communicating with the relatives of the rman
Duggan and his wife, they found out the address of
the mother and also the brother, alluded to in the
letter sent to the inspector on duty at Smithfield
station, by the murderer Duggan. At 11 o'clock
last night Mrs. Duggan's mother arrived at the
police-station in Smithfield, she having travelled
from Bristol, to ascertain the particulars of the
fearful occurrence. Up to noon she had not sees
any of the bodies, it being deemed prudent not to
allow her at present, for the fatigue coesequeu
upon travelling over a hundred miles, and brood-
ing over the extent of lives sacrificed has rendered
her exceedingly weak and nervous, so that it i 5
doubtful whether she will be allowed to see
the bodies until the inquest is opened, end
then merely for her to be able to identify
her daughter. The brother has not Yet
arrived in London, but he has forwarded
to the police authorities the letter alluded to
by the
assassin. That letter has been locked up
in the
superintendent's office in the Old Jewry, but, for
obvious reasons, the police will not at present allow
the contents to be made known. It is therefore
reasonably supposed that at the inquest the letter
will show whether the most mysterious part of the.
perpetration of the dreadful crimes were participated
in by the wife or not.
The mother of the unfortunate wife of Duggan
describes her as having been a most affectionate
wife and mother, the only charge she could lap
against her was that she was too attentive, worked
too hard in keeping her house in order, and was We
attentive to her husband and children. In order to
keep the latter respectable she has been known to
deprive herself of many things, such as saving up
the dinner beer money, &c., and her mother, there'
fore, is of opinion that she could not possibly holre
aided in the dreadful crimes.
The wife of the murderer, it is now understood,
was not an English woman, but a native of Bel-
gium. After a short courtship she married and
lived on the most affectionate terms with her bus"
band, and bore him several children ; but owing ~,t°
business not answering, he and his family left Bri
tol and came to settle in London. Since then he
had acted as clerk and foreman to the owner of the
house in Hosier-lane, in which the murders were
committed. There are a great number of rumour°
afloat as to the predisposing cause for the perpetra-
don of the wholesole crime. One is that he was
suspected of being privy to a robbery of plate be-
longing to his employer ; another, that his ill-state
of health was likely to involve his family in ruin'
As far as the first-named rumour goes, the police
have not as yet received any authentic information;
and the latter hypothesis seems to be the most
likely.
There is little doubt that Duggan or his wife,
after the return of the children from their walk,
had been reading the Bible, as the sacred volume
was found open when the discovery was made by
the police. The book, it will be remembered, Wu'
tained the Christian and surnames of the children'
their respective ages, as well as the time of his mar'
riage, and the age of himself and wife.
Mr. Brett, the board beadle, and the police are
f
still very active in trying to find out the vendor o
the prussic acid, but up to noon without the loilet

success.
As some doubts were entertained as to the cause
of death of three persons Mr. Wilson has made all
autopsy of the three bodies, and has in each de-
tected traces in the abdomen and viscera of the
heart that each had been poisoned with prussic
acid.
It has been stated that Duggan was seen postill
a letter in a pillar box at four o'clock on Monday
morning, which, if such was the case, it would b 8
taken out of the box at five o'clock, and delivered
in due course a little before or a few minutes ater
eight o'clock, about the time Duggan's
tt
reached the police station in Smithfield. Sever
persons whose avocations call them early in tia
te
morning are of opinion that he never went out at
that time of the morning, for if he had they reuse
have seen him leave and also return. They Tier I:
however, nearly all positive that up to that hour
light was left burning in the frort room.
It is understood that the inquest will be opene:lo
pro forma to-morrow and then adjourned, simply
allow the bodies to be buried after being identified'

ACLAisTD'S IMPERIAL POLL-BOOK, just published,
will be found to contain much valuable information, 811,11
to politicians and the general public. There are artci
on Representation and Legislation past, present,
e,
future, and the General Elections under the Reform 11-i
and also an index of candidates from the year 1839 w°
1869. As a book of reform it will prove invaluable.