The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

BANKING DBPARTMENT.

Preprietors'capital .. 14,553,000
Rest •• ....... 3,805,380
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks; and
Dividend Accounts) 5,506,124
Other deposits ...... 12,653,535
4. yen Day and other
„8R15........ 756,33 C

Government securities

437,271,369

Dated the 20th day of March, 1

POISONING BY STRYCHNIA.

COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN.
let Durham Regiment of Militia —Edward Agnew, Esq.,
to be Adjutant, vice Smith, resigned.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS.
The Hon. James Frederick Stuart Wortley to be Deputy
Lieutenant of the County of York.
Ist Durham Regiment of Militia—Mjutaut Edward
Agnew to serve with the rank of Captain.
Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regi-
ment of -Militia—John Alex. Byrne, Gent., to be Ensign.
Norfolk Militia Artillery—Shovel! Henry Brereton,
Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Ensign
Edward Effingham Lawrence to be Lieutenant, vice Clarke,
resigned.
Royal Rifle Regiment of Denbighshire Militia—Lieut.
Robt. Myddelton to be Captain, vice Fitzhugh, resigned.
West Suffolk Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant Lord
Hervey to be Captain, vice Agnew, resigned.
Ist Regiment of tho Royal Surrey Militia—To be Lieu-
tenants—Ensign Alfred Spencer Heathcote, vice Ross, re-
signed ; Ensign Arthur Irwin Isles, vice Forbes, pro-
moted • Ensign William Henry Medly, vice Devas,
resigned.

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Henry, John, and James Saiithbs, ironrounders, Black•
burn.

ANKRUPTS.
John Julius Stutzerß , ship owner, Greville-street,
.Bruns-
wick-square, to surrender, April 4, at eleven, and May 8,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official as-
,i.gnee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Lawrance, Plews, and
Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
John Coles Fourdrinier, paper-maker, late of Bush-lane,
April 4, at two, and May 2, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Lowrance, Pl.ws, ola
liriharn Turing Curtis, merchant, Great St. Helen's,
April 1, at two, and April 29, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Nicholson, Lime.
street.

Samuel Sheen, victualler, Norwood, March 29, at one,
and May 7, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Parnell and Willaume, New Broad-street,
Eden Davis, cabinet manufacturer Oxford-street, April
1 and 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, offi-
cial assignee ; Arcbbutt and Kays, New-inn, Strand.
Richard Nicholson, carpet bag maker, Holborn, April
3, at two, and April 29, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Ba-
singliall-street ; Roscoe, King-street, Finsbury-square,
Peter Hewitt, worsted spinner, Ossett Common, York-
shire, April 8 and May 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Terry and Wet-
Fein, Bradford ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds.
Edward Powell, grocer, Newtown, Montgomeryshire,
April 3 and May 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Radcliffe,
Liverpool.
Robert Clark, dealer, Liverpool, April 3, and May 1, at
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official
assignee, Liverpool ; Woodburn, Liverpool.
John Prout, silk manufacturer, Sutton, April 2 and 24,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy.
Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Higginbotham,
Macclesfield.
John Smith, tobacconist, Manchester, April 1 and 22,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court of Bankruptcy.
Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Richardson and Hill-
nell, Bolton-le-Moors.
John Phillips Veysey, hatter, Exeter, April 3 and 30,
at one, at the Exeter District. Court. Hirtzel, official as-
signee, Exeter; Reed, Langford, and Marsden, Friday-
street; Stogdon, Exeter.
Joseph Marsden, iron founder, Derby, April 8 and April
- 29, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
"March 3, 18:6. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Vallack, Derby.
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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
" Dear Caroline,--The bearer of this note is the girl W. end J. Duckett, Burnie stonemasons-J. Har-
that my servant tie,- T to you about. She looks a wood, J. Ley, and J. GlazebrookY, 'Heywood, Lancashire,
good strong girl. I told her that you only gave 5. a year, cotton apinnyers-J. Hartle and J. Ponsford, Upper
and that she was to do ever thin affectionate Thames-street, millers-W.YLlewden, and W. gowden,
sister."
inn. Boston iron founders-H. Whalley and J. Brindle,
On coming down stairs from the room in which the doe- Chor,ley, plas'terers-C. Coles and J. Howlett, High-stieet,
tor wanted to examine me, I met the Belgian Jewess and Islington, linendrapers-J. and J. Owen, Bowdon, Che-
the girl who accompanied us from London. The girls shire, plasterers- W. Marsh and J. Boville, Kingston-upon-
were then, I was informed, going to be examined by the Hull, spirit merchants-W. Towers, J. Wilson, and E.
Kingston-upon-
doctor ; and afterwards the old woman, upon being told Riley, Ripponden, near Halifax, silk waste dressers-J.
that I refused to allow the doctor to do his duty, charged and C. L. Kelly, Lower Belgrave-place, auctioneers-G.
me with having robbed my father of 51., an l the letter I C. Dobell and W. Hriddlestoue, Liverpool, forwarding and
have produced was pointed at as proof of the robbery, commission agents-J.
aCn.dCfoortis avitd C. Mlles,s9iissestrn-
and was considered sufficient by the authorities. I was upon-Dull,
J. Scattergood,enilgra c'tonckport,rmw:Crilncgtatigreerns 6-P. Atkinson
then again sent to the House of Detention, where I re-
mained until the City of London policeman Smith, 572, ing.,
andJ.Thirlwall,Holborn-bars,linendrapers-J.andField-
Rochdale, tea dealers-T. J. Creswiek and W. W.
arrived and took me under his protection.
Hari F. Sheffield, manufacturers of electro-plated goods
Smith, 572, made a report to Sir R. W. Carden, the -J. F. and T. F. Sutcliffe, Skircoat, cotton spinners-J.
essential parts of which are as follow :- -On Monday even- C. Wall and E. Barham, Bristol, agents to the Bristol and
ing, the 9th inst., I went on shore at Hamburg, at five Exeter Railway Company, and general hauliers-D. Clarke
o'clock, an I proceeded with all speed to ascertain the and J. Melville, Hatcham New Town, leather japanners-
result of your telegraphic despatch to the police station. H. Masters and T. Boulden, Ashford, builders--G. Mace
and J. Browne, Norwich, lucifer match manufacturers-
prefect or inspector, and then I was called upon to ex-
turers-G. Thompson and J. Hilton, Oldham, cotton spin-
plain my obj ct in regard to my visit, and all things in ners-W. and A. Lea, Birmingham, jewellers-R. Palmer
connection with Susannah Evans. Having got the assist- and C. D. Hitchcock, Liverpool, tea dealers-J. Kitten
mice of an interpreter, I was able to state fully what had and J. H. Selby, Norwich, grocers-E. Wray, W. boyars,
been the system carried on as to the traffic in English Tupman, Goole, engineers; as far as regards E.
girls from the port of London, but the authorities refused Wray.
to hear anything but what concerned the particular par- DECLARATIONS OF DrOIDEND3.
ties who bad just arrived. They then told me that those J. Cexon, Macclesfield, butcher, licensed victualler, and
parties had been taken into custody, and that the pro- coach proprietor-first div. of ls. in the pound. Tuesda
euress had explaine,l to their satisfecqoa what her in- April ._l, or any subsequent Tuesday, in the office of Mr.y, tantions had been in bringing over the girls who ac- Putt, Manchester.
joiner and builder-first div. of 3s. in
• Ellis,
her to bind themselves to a course of prostitution, and
eompanied her ; that they had willingly engaged with
t ahe pound,t the office any subsequent Tuesday,
of Mr. Tuesday,Ardwick
Pott, Manches April 8, or
ter.
lie© with her at leer brothel, 86, Dammthor- wall. It B. Lord, Blackburn, coal dealer-first div. of 4ed. in the
then appeared that the surgeon was called for to pound, Tuesday, April 8, or any subsequent Tuesday, at
look at the girls before their admission as prostitutes, the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester.
and that four of them had passed examination ; but Mr. R. and T. Heathfield, Sheffield, cotton spinners
that when it came to Susannah Evangel turn she re- fifth div. of id. in the pound, Tuesday, April 8, or any
fused to submit to the examination in the most indigo subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr.Pott, Manchester.
nant manner, When I told the authorities that the H. T?pper, Manchester, provision dealer-first div. of
4s. 2d. in the pound, Tuesday, April 8, or any subsequent
,nnocetat girl had been decoyed away by the procure's
Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. .
they contradicted me, and insisted that Susannah J. Worrell, Bolton and Manchester, neanufacturer-24
Ewans was a corrupt and bad character, and they pro- div. of 103. 10d. in the pound, Tuesday, ,April
8,
or any
pro-
duced the letter of recommendation as evidence of the Tuesday, at the office of Hr. Pott, Manchester.
truth of the charge, inasmuch as it showed that she had DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
stolen 5/. from her own father. I explained the nature of April 10, H. Tindall, Hastings, brewer-April 11, C.
that communication and they appeared to be quite in. Deario, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, merchant-Aprill2,
credulous, and to consider the word of the procuress H. Fairweather, Norwich, upholsterer--April 18, W., H.,
most to be depended upon. Tbat sort of reliance seemed and J. Mitchell, Hoarstones, Forest of Fondle, Lancashire,
to be habitual with the police of the place. If the girl worsted spinners-April 11, W. Mitchell, lloarstones,
worsted spinner-H. Mitchell, Hoarstones, worsted spin-
had not resolutely refused to be examined before I got to
Hamburg, I cannot see how she could have escaped con- ner-April 10, J. Mitchell, Hoarstones, worsted spinner-
tarnination, for there seemed to have been no notice I April 7, J. Jones, Ancoats, innkeeper-April 14, J. J.
ierley and R. Arrewsmieb, jun., Manchester, silk and -
taken of the telegraphic despatch sent by SW.Carden cotton manufacturers-April 11, PF'l S d l d rADVERTISEMCNT.j-Holloway's Pills an excellent
a all' ey, un or an ,
until she was found to be determined to resist the effort of chemist-Aprill6, E. Squire, Kingston-upon-Hull, timber medicine.- Perfect digestion and pure bile produce good
the procuress to seize upon her. When I saw the young merchant-April 28, E. Prodgers, late of Ludlow, banker blood, and if the functioes of either the stomach or the
woman in the House of Detention in Hamburg she cried , -Aprill2, J. L. Lucas, late of Willenhall, druggist. liver are disordered, Holloway's Pills will assuredly re-
most bitterly, and expressed great anxiety to return. I I
I
CERTIFICATES TO BE GRANTED. pair the mischief, and enable them to supply the chan-
had previously inquired about ber conduct on board the April 11, J. Powell, Woolwich, linendraper-C. jet- nels of circulation with an uncontaminated fluid cu then
aeamer on her passage to Hamburg, and the state- Tories, late of Union-court, Old Broad-street, merchant- in cases of bile, indigestion, or disordered stoachs,
rnents of those who were connected with the vessel con- April 15, W. Shove, Croydon, oil and colonrman, and why not use this invaluable remedy, which hasred
firmed the truth of every word she had uttered. In the painter and glazier-April 11, A. King, Chiswell-street,
thousands when every other medicine failed? The number
Fiasbury, wholesale grocer and provision merchant--April
course of my inquiries at Hamburg I was credibly
of years these pills have been in use confirm the efficacy
informed that the revenue of the city is greatly assisted I 12, W. P. Lillicr p Davies-stree4- Berkeley-square, far-
, rier-Aprill2, 4. Pend J. Raven, 'Fish-street-hill, whole- of their good effects. oy all medicine vendors
by prostitution. Each person who keeps a house of ill- sale stationers-April 12, H. Fairweather, Norwich, up- throughont-tke world, at Professor Holloway's estab-
Lma is licensed by the authorities for such purpose, and i bolsterer and cabinet maker-April 15, J. Mitchell, Sun- lielensente, 244; Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane,
ever girl who takes to it as a livelihood must pay to street, Bishopegate, analytical chemist -Aprills, E. Ellis, New York ;by A. Stamps, Constantinople ;A, Guidioy, I
theyte one thaler (Be.) per week, and is placed under Ludgate-kill, tarern•keeper-April 11, R. raiLlen Suu. Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Mates ,

(includg.DeadlieriXt
Annuity) .......... 11,451,006
Other securities...... 19,285,028
Notes .......... 5,884,865
Gold and silver coin.. 650,470

1 £37.::71 .3 39
M. MARSHALL, Chief u.silier,

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending March 11,
1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Groat Britain :
From the British Possessions in America .. 245. 2}d.
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 245. lid.
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies .... 235. 100.
Average of the three foregoing descriptions .... 245. 3ld.

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(Prom flee ifedical Times and Gazette. )
We live in an age distinguished for its intellectual ac-
vity, but alike remarkable for deeds of atrocious crimi-
nality. The tales of romance and the fictions of poetry
are surpassed by the occurrence, which are daily happen-
lug under oxr own eyes, and which make make us doubt
whether we are living in a civilised and Christian land,
or in a region inhabited by fierce and merciless savages.
Blood is recklessly shed, even without the ordinary mo-
tives of hatred and revenge; husbands destroy the wives
whom they have sworn to cherish and protect ; mothers
plunge the deadly weapon into the life-current of their
offspring ; and children, with or without motives, shorten
their parents' days. Nor is this desecration of the tem-
ple of life confined to the victims of the assassin, but
the latter anticipates the hangman's office by rushing
headlong himself into the presence of the Eternal
Judge. Horrible as these reflections are, we
cannot be accused of exaggerating their intensity,
by any person who has observed, however cursorily,
the crses which pollute our country and degrade our
species. But we leave to the historian the task of expa-
tiating upon this dreadful epidemic of wickedness, which
now overspreads the land like a pestilence; we leave to
the minister of religion the duty of warning the commu-
nity against yielding to temptations which lead to pri-
vate demoralisation and to pubic inTarey : we leave to
the judicial bench the power of wielding the sword of
justice to punish offenders,. and to deter others from
imitatieg their example. To us belongs the humbler,
but no less useful labour of cooly and dispassionately
examining, by the light of science, the evidences of mur-
der as revealed by physiological, pathological, or che-
mical investigations. Among the other characteristic
features of the criminality of the age is the frequent use
of poison in destroyim.g life; a mode of destruction
thought to be at once the most sage in its execution, and
most difficult in its detection. The effects of poison
may be mistaken for those produced by natural dis-
ease, and the tests of poisonous agents are necessarily ac-
companied by occasional sources of fallacy. The very
difficulty of mastering chemical science renders its acqui-
sition attainable only by the few ; and the multitude,
including jurymen. barristers, and judges, are unable, in
a great majority of cases, even to appreciate the value of
toxicological evidence. Tice unavoidable intricacies of
the subj. c!-, afford means for half-educated and pert at-
torneys. nr for onnr.“.4 ahnll.-", 4, • brow
beat and perplex the medical witne,s, who, indiffsrent to
any interest but the cause of science, comes forward to
speak the truth, and willingly a !mite the occasional
errors to which toxicological science, like every human
pursuit, is labte.
It is unfortunate for the purpose of the murderer, hut
favourable to the ends of justice, that strychnia should
be selected for the diabolical object of taking away life.
There is, perhaps, no poison which produces such charac-
teristic symptoms in the victim. while he yet lives, or
which affords more di ci-iive evidence of its presence after
death. Deluded by imperfect knowledge the murderer
may, perhaps, imagine that he has purchased immunity
for his crime by the minuteness of the dose of the poison
—by its mysterious effects, resembling those of natural
disease,—and by the supposed difficulty of its detection
among the 'ifeless tissues. But the finger of science
points to the detection of his crime, and dissipates his
visionary hopes ; the grain of white powder, which he
anticipates will silently carry his victim to the grave,
excites, on the contrary, the most violent and charac-
teristic convulsions ; a minute fraction of a grain, lying
on the animal membranes after death, will exhiiiit, under
appropriate tests, a series of resplendent and iridescent
rings of colour to the chemist's view ; arid a portion of
fluid from the intestines introduced into the tissues of a
living animal, will again excite the identical convulsions
which followed the first administration of the poison.
Since we blast adverted to the case of poisoning by
strychnia at Leeds, the inquest on the body of Mrs.
Dove has been concluded, and the jury have returned a
verdict of " wilful murder" against her husband. Still
adherios tooter rule of refraining from remark upon the
criminality of the accused, and confining ourselves alto-
gether to the medico-legal bearings of the case, we can-
not but observe upon the luminous manner in which the
medical evidence has been given, and upon the able and
impartial manner in which the coroner has performed
his duties. We cannot forbear quoting from the sum-
ming-up address delivered by the latter the following
very graphic and accurate description of the effects of
strychnia upon the living body—a description which
should be carefully read by any one who may harbour
the infamous thought of seeking to take away his by
means of this energetic agent :
The symptoms commence generally from five to 20
minutes after the strychnine has been swallowed. The
patient is suddenly seized withtetanic symptoms, pro-
ducing spasmodic contraction of the whole ratv:cular
system ; the intellect is clear, the body becomes rigid,
the limbs are stretched out, and the jaws so fixed that
considerable difficulty is experienced in introducing any-
thing into the mouth; the muscles of the chest are fixed
by spasmodic contraction ; the body assumes the state
of being bent backwards ; the lower extremities are ex-
tended and stiff, and the soles of the feet ara concave;
the skin becomes livid, the eyeballs prominent, and the
pupils dilated and insensible. After _were' attacks, in-
creasing in severity, death ensues from spasms of the
muscles of the chest producing suffocation."
Tethecommendation we lately he-towed upon Messrs.
Nunueley and Morley, the'rnedical witnesses in the case,
we have now to add a further weed of praise, for the ad-
ditional light they have thrown upon the investigation
by their experiments upon living animals with the fluid
obtained from the body of the deceased. A portion of
this fluid was administered in suceeseion to five animals
—viz , two rabbits, two mice, and a guinea-pig ; and
in all these animals the characteristic effects of poisoning
by strychnia were produced. Five other animals were
taken fur a parallel series of experiments with ordinary
strychnia, arid the same results wore obtained. We
agree with Messrs. Nunneley and Morley, that the fact
of poisoning by strychnia, in the present case, is put
beyond a doubt.
We shall revert hereafter to this subject, so impor-
tant in its medico-legal bearings, and now so interesting
to the whole community, and will at present conclude
by observing, that strychnia is not a substance likely to
be used extensively by the murderer, unless be courts
detection. The hideous contortions exhibited by the
poisoned person, so unlike the symptoms of any known
disease, except tetanus, and distinguished from the latter
by characters sufficiently well marked—the ready detec-
tion of the poison after death, especially by the con•
joint action or sulphuric acid and the bichromate of
potass—and the power of reproducing the tetanic con-
vulsions in animals by the administration of the intes
tinal fluids—all thesecharacters must render this kind o
poisoning easy of recognition, and reduce it to the levee
of a vulgar murder perpetrated by the knife, the blud.
geon, or the pistol of the common assassin.