The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-12 00:00:00

LITER ATURE.

Guide through North Wales.
_By William

Catbrall. E. Stanford.
Mr. Cathrall is thoroughly conversant with the
topography and scenery of North Wales. He some
time back published his wanderings in that coun-
try. He has now arranged his experiences in a
more useful form to be serviceable to the tourist.
The work is so arranged as to enable the traveller
to survey the whole of the country, and visit the
most interesting spots in the most expeditious and
convenient manner, both by coach and rail. The
counties described consist of Anglesea, C,ernarvon,
Denbigh, Merioneth, Flint, and Montgomery, en-
tering minutely into the geological statistics and
general characteristics of the different counties. On
account of the amount of information contained this
little work is rather voluminous, but will prove of
great service to those who visit this romantic
country.

SHOUKING WIFE MURDER, BY AN OLD 314117

AT STOCKPORT.

Yesterday, the adjourned inquest on the body of
Mary Ann Howard, aged 56, wife of a handloom
weaver living in Weaver's-row, Lord-street, Stock-
port, was resumed by Mr. W. Johnson, coroner of
the north-eastern division of Cheshire, at the Grove
Inn, Stockport. A brief account of the brutal
murder has already been published ; but the state-
ment that John Howard, the husband of the de-
ceased, had been in custody, is incorrect. He was
present at the inquest yesterday, and at the close
of the inquiry was, of course, taken in charge by
the proper officers. Howard is in his seventy-
seventh year, about middle height, and, although
pale and emaciated, his intellectual faculties are
unimpaired. His deposition, taken on the pre-
vious occasion, was first read over by the Coroner.
The following are the material portions :
The deceased began to drink ou Saturday last
(September Ist), and continued to do so until her
death. She came home on Tuesday night last
quite drunk. She began to break the windows, and
I sent for my son Peter, who works at Mr. Bradley's
mill, and he came. I then went to bed ; the deceased
did not come to bed that night to my know-
ledge. I got up about six o'clock next morning,
and went to my loom in the front room down
stairs. Hearing a noise shortly after I went to the
front and back doors, but did not see anything.
Afterwards I went upstairs, and saw the deceased
lying on the top of the bed. She was bleeding, but I
did not go near her. I went out, locking the door and
taking the key, and told some neighbours what I had
seen, and then went for my son Peter. I had
not seen the deceased that morning until I saw
her bleeding on the bed. I had been sleeping in
the same room, and she might have been lying
on the bed, but I did not see her. I cannot put
my coat on myself, and that morning I got a girl
in the street to help me on with it.
Ann Robinson, a labourer's wife, residing in
Lord-street, Stockport, said—The fore part of
the deceased's body was off the bed, and her
hands towards but not touching the floor.
There was a pool of blood upon the floor, and the
knife produced was lying near the right hand, as
though it had dropped from it. As I was leaving
the room I met the old man on the stairs. I looked
him in the face, and said, " Where are you going ?"
He hesitated ; and I added, " Have you seen her ?"
Turning round, I saw Olive Bower and Samuel
Harrison behind me, and I then said, " Go down
stairs and wash yourself." He said, " What for;
have I something on me I' I said, " Yes ;" and he
replied, " She smacked me on the face last night
with her bloody hands, after she broke the win-
dows." I saw blood upon his face : it seemed as
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if sprinkled. He immediately went down stairs
as quickly as he could, and washed his hands in
the back kitchen. The deceased was of very in-
temperate habits, and had been a great trouble
to her family. Her husband has frequently told
me pitiful tales of her conduct. He says he never
took drink for the last eight years. I never saw
him intoxicated. After the old man's clothes had
been examined by the police at this inn, he came to
me and said, " If it had not been for you telling me
to wash me, I should have catched it." I took hold
of him by the hand and said, " Hush."
Olive Bowyer, widow, Ridgway•lane, Stockport,
stated—l heard Mrs. Robinson tell the old man to
go back, and we followed him. He stood by the
slopstone, and I said, " For heaven's sake, man, get
yourself washed." His hands were coloured a very
little ; and he washed the back of his left hand,
which had a little blood on it, with the other. The
whole of his face was dotted with blood, as though
sprinkled from a pepper box.
Priscilla Howard, daughter of the deceased, and
apparently about 17 years of age, said—On Tues-
day night the deceased came home drunk, and very
quarrelsome. She turned me out of the front door
and locked it, and I sat on the door-step until
three o'clock the text morning. I then went
in, and found the deceased lying across the
table in the front room asleep. I awoke her,
and she went up stairs, and laid on the
bed beside my father. She awoke me
about half-past . five and gave me my break-
fast, which she had got ready, to take with
me. I went to my work a few minutes before
six o'clock. The night before the deceased hit my
father upon the face with her bleeding hand, after
she had broken the windows. My father washed
his face a few minutes afterwards. I cannot say
whether there was any blood on his face when I
went out in the morning. I left the deceased and
my father alone. I heard no quarrel or conversa-
tion between them before I left. The axe produced
belonged to my father, and was generally kept in
the coal place.
John Howard, who left the room after his depo-
sition had been read over, was then recalled, and
the evidence of the several witnesses read to him by
the coroner. He frequently exclaimed, " Yes, that's
right," and after the evidence of Mr. Massey, he
said, " I cannot account for it ; I do not wish to
ask any questions." He afterwards added, " I
cannot use the axe, but it must be something
similar. They know I am very dull at hearing,
and there's enemies on the other side are cruel.
They can come in and out, but I can'neither see
nor hear them. She has said numbers of times she
would cut her own throat. This is all I have to
say."
The Coroner carefully summed up, and, after a
few minutes' deliberation, the jury returned a
verdict of " Wilful murder" against Howard, who
was committed under the Coroner's warrant to take
his trial on the charge.

A MODEST REQU EST.—THE DOPE WALKER AND
THE PRINCE.—We read the following, quoted in the Nord
of Brussels, from the New York Evening Post :—" If it be
not a duck of the genuine type, it reveals a degree of cool
assurance not hitherto surpassed. Blondin, the acrobat,
or funambulist, who has gained celebrity by his feats at
Niagara Falls, has had the impertinence to write to the
Duke of Newcastle, asking to be allowed to arrange for the
Prince of Wales quite a novel mode of entrance into the
United States,—namely, that he, Blondin, should be per-
mitted to carry the Prince on his shoulders from the Cana-
dian to the States side of the cataracts, on a tight rope I"
In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday Mr. Benja-
min Gibbs, leather merchant, of Bermondsey, applied for
his certificate. This is the first application of the kind in
connection with the recent failures in the leather trade. ,
The official assignee reports that the bankrupt commence:
business in the year 1856, with very little capital. t
the
stated t e
stated on behalf of the General Discount Company anld
Mercantile Discount Company, who are creditors, that
asttrha.
the
bankrupt has been pnt forward as the puppet ofnil
Hooper and Parkinson, a view in which Mr. Commissioner
Goulburn concurred. His Honour characterisedatth„ei st
; iy em
t did
pursued as "vicious and wicked," and said that
ar to it." As
not involve charges of fraud, it
came
vireiln7sonne as the princi-
he regarded Messrs. Hooper and P
rntil their conduct has
pals, he declined to decide thiscliseaue,
Gibbs' application was there-
been fully investigated.
fore adjourned for three months,3ir with protection.
EADA
THE MARQUIS OF LBANE.—A general
wish wish having been expressed. buyi s theof
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lb ota
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consider
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a mark of respect to the Marquis t
him to a public enterttnmen,
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subject and make arrangements
Perth, on the eveningol,iwidaasyaltatesht—deLdohtdy
aPliaorvgoeshtulaarnbreier
meetingand a resolution inviting the noble
in the chair.
dinner in Perth was unanimously
of influential ciTtihzueebinaic;
marquis to a P
adopted. A deputation was also appointed to wait upon
the Marquis of Breadalbane to ascertain his views on the
subject. The deputation left Perth on Saturday morning
for Taymouth Castle, where they were cordially received ;
and after stating the object of their visit, the noble marquis
fixed Tuesday, the 2d, October, to dine with the citizens of
Perth.
ACCIDENT ON THE CORNWALL RAILWAY.—On
Saturday afternoon, when the 12 45 down train was ap-
proaching Truro station, the feed plug of the engine
came
out and caused a stream of water to run up on the rails.
This happened at the spot where the breaks
are generally
applied to check the speed of the trains, that they may be
altogether stopped at the eastern end of the station, to ad-
mit of the examination of tickets. The result was that the
breaks of the engine and carriages would not hold the
wheels as usual, and the train over-ran the ticket platform,
cau%ing the engine to come in contact with the trucks
which were standing at the station. Three or four passen •
gers were bruised, and two received slight cuts on their
faces, though not of sufficient importance to prevent them
from continuing their journey from Truro by the West
Cornwall Railway.
CAPTURE OF A CRIMINAL. Mr. Erskine, the
English charge d'affaires at St. Petersburg, having given
information to the police that a French subject, named
Jules Varner after having stolen a considerable sum of
money in London, had fled to the Russian capital, search
was made for him, and he was discovered, living under the
assumed name of Leon Dugue du Rochet. An agent of
the secret police of London having arrived at St. Peters-
burg, the Frenchman was arrested, and on the application
f the English legation and of the French consul, delivered
over, with his wife and two children, to the agent to be
taken to London. The prisoner was on examination found
to be a deserter from the French army, for whom the Go-
vernment bad been on the look out. Mr. Erskine has
since communicated to the police authorities of St. Peters-
burg the satisfaction felt by his Government at the prorocp:
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