The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-26 00:00:00

MEAT.

NEWGATE AND LEADEXIIALL.—Theso markets aro ex-
tensively supplied with meat, for ivliich the demand rules
heavy, and our quotations aro barely supported. Beef,
from 3s 2d to is 6d; mutton, 3s 2d to 43 6d ; real, 36 101
to 4s Phi ; pork, 3s 2d to 43 4d per Blbs by the carcase.

SPORTING INTELLIG-ENOE—This Day.

NEWMARKET RACES—Tnis D.Y.
(HY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
QUEEN'S PLAT E.
Th. Queen's Plato of 100 gs ; throe yea 'olds ist IPL, four
9st 71b, five 10. it 11b, six and aged 1C 3t 1;1b; B. J.
Dalesman
Loy bourne
Assitsehohle
Five ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.
A Handieep of 15 sous each, 10 ft, at d 5 only if declated by
noon on Moaday, S-p'. 2;, with 100 added; the winner
to be sold for 500 sovs. Cesarowitch Course. 22 subs.
Stephen Langton •• 1
Violent .. 2
Lizard ..... 3
'MATCH.
Match 500, h ft ; Bst 71b each ; last mile and three quarters
of the Cesarowitch Course. Marquis of Hastings's
Challenge agst Duke of
_Newcastle's Julius (both three
year olds).
Julius
Challenge
TWENTIETH TRIENNIAL.
The Twentieth Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 sovs each
for two-year-olds; coltsfist 101 b, fillies Bst 71b. T.Y.C.
Uncas
Pearlfeather
Tregoagle

S 9V611 ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.
A Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft, if declared by ten o'clock
on Wednesday evening, for three year olds and upwards.
T.Y.C.
Paris
Delium • • 2
Five ran.

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; three-year-olds Bst 41b,
four and upwards Bst 131 b. T.Y.O
Sweet Anne
Problem
Eight ran.
HANDICAP OF 10 SOVS.
A Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds ; last
half of Ab.

Gloire de Dijon l.
Wombat dam filly 2
3
Sarah

Twelve ran.

SIVEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS.
A Sweepstakes of 5 soya each; two-year-olds 6st 101 b,
three Bst 81b, four and upwards 9st. Rutland Stakes

Course. 1
Khadyah c
2
Lady Constance
HANDICAP PLATE OF 50 SOVS.
A Plate of 50 sous (handicap), for three year olds and up-
wards; A.F.
Chignon 1
Moleskin 2
Seven ran.
RUTLAND STAKES..

The Rutland Stakes of 30 sous each, 20 ft, for two year
olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst Gib; from the Turn of the
Lands in.
Earl 1
Suffolk 2
Innerdale .. 8
Won easy.

LATEST BETTING ON TILE COURSE.

CESAILEIVITCIL
11 to 2 agst Honesty (taken)
9to 1 agst Blinkhoolie (taken)
10 to 1 agst Armourer taken)
100 to 6 agst Maid of Masham (taken)
100 to 6 agst Lothario (taken)
100 to 6 agst Sealskin (taken)
20 to 1 agst Romping Girl (taken)
28 to 1 agst Montgoubort (taken)
100 to 3 agst Owain Glyndwr (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Julius (taken)
40 to 1 Proserpina (offered)

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—TiIIs DAY.
But a mero knot of subscribers were present, yet the
doings were by no means devoid of interest. Honesty for
the Cesarowitch, made a further a,lvanc,, being supported
down to 5 to 1, which price by ono commissioner wa
accepted to fifty piunds. Both Blinkhoolio and Armouror
were each in healthy demand, and others, as below, met
with support. Fur the October Handicap Pirate Chief and
Lord Ronald wore each in cousiderAbloreqmst. Thu busi-
ness transacted was as follows:

OCTOBER HANDICAP.
6to 1 agst Lord Ronald (taken)
6to 1 agst Pirate Chief (taken)
10 to 1 agst Opeponax (taken)
CESAREWITCII.
sto 1 agat Honesty (taken freely)
10 to 1 agst Blinkhoolio (taken)
11 to 1 agst Armourer (taken)
100 to 8 agst Thalia (offered)
25 to 1 agat Romping Girl (offered)
1000 to 30 eget Montgoubert (taken)
DERBY.
18 to 1 agst Blue Gown (taken to £5O)
1000 to 30 agat The Earl (offered—take 40 to 1)

JOHN STIRK
25, WELLINGTON-sTREET, STRAND,
Executes Cora nissious on all the races to any amount.

The full market odds laid.
Price list daily.

Bank of England Returns.—This Evening.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1867.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued .m 08,237,860 Governmt. Debt.£ll,ols,loo
Other Securities 3,981,000
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

£38,237,8681
11.1NXING D.

£88,237,688

Proprietors'Capi-
tatl £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ea-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts
Other Deposits 18,915,280
Seven Days and
,„_other Bills 542,559

LPARTMENT.
Governmt. Socu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... £12,895,272
Other Securities 17,121,694
Notes 11,322,755
Gold and Silver
Coin

X 46,056,701

£46,035,701

SECTS IN ENGLAND.—The following is a list of
denominations certified to the Registrar-General :
Apostolics, Armenian New Society, Baptists, Baptised
Believers, Believers in Christ, Bible Christians, Bible De-
fence Association, Brethren Calvinists, Calvinistic Baptists,
Catholic and Apostolic Church, Christian; Christians who
object to be otherwise designated, Christian Believers,
Christian Brethren, Christian Eliasites, Christian Israe-
lites, Christian Teetotaller; Christian Temperance Men,
Christian Unionists, Church of Scotland, Church of Christ,
Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Disciples in Christ,
Eastern Orthodox Greek Church, Eloctics, Episcopalian
Dissenters, Evangelical Unionist; Followers of the Lord
Jesus Christ, Free Grace Gospel Christian; Free Gospel
Church, Free Christians, Free Church, Free Church
(Episcopal), Free Church of England, Free Union Church,
General Baptist, General Baptist New Connexion, German
Lutheran, German Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Hal-
lelujah Band, Independents, independent Religious Re-
formers, Independent Unionists, lnghamites, Jews, Latter
Day Saints, Modern Methodists, Mormons, New Jerusalem
Church, New Church, Old Baptists, Original Connexion of
Wesleyans, Plymouth Brethren, Peculiar People, Presby-
terian Church in England, Primitive Methodists, Progres-
sionists, Protestants adhering to the Articles of the Church
of England 1 to 18 inclusive, but rejecting order and ritual,
Providence, Quaker; Ranters, Reformers, Reformed Pres-
byterians or Covenanters, RecreatiVe Religionists, Refuge
Methodists, Revivalists, Roman Catholic; Salem Society,
Sandemanians, Scotch Baptists, Second Advent Brethren,
Separatists (Protestant), Seventh Day Baptists, Sweden -
borgians, Testimony Congregational Church, Trinitarians,
Union Bapti,ts, Unitarians, Unitarian Christian, United
Christian Church, United Free Methodist Church, United
Brethren of Moravians, United Presbyterian, Unitarian
Baptists, Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, Welsh Free Pres-
byterians, Wesleyan Methodist Association, Wesleyan Re-
former; and Wesleyan Reform Glory Band.
SUNDAY POSTAL DELIVERY.—A memorial, signed
by 3,43.5 inhabitants of Southsea, has just been forwarded
through the Working Men's Lord's-day Rest Association
to her Majesty's Postmaster-General to the following
effect :—" That the Post-office servants as well as others
require one day's rest in seven from toil. That at present
the Post-office officials in Southsea are employed on the
Sunday as well as on other days ; and that such employ-
ment is unnecessary, as in London and numerous other
places the Sunday delivery of letters, &c., is entirely dis-
pensed with. The memorialists therefore pray that the
delivery of letters, &c., in Southsea b 3 entirely stopped on
Sundays,"

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Lush).
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT LIMEHOUSE.

The trial of John Wiggins was resumed this
morning.

Mr. Horton, the surgeon who first attended and
afterwards examined the body of deceased, was re-
called, and the following questions put to him by
LThe le.trued Judge.—Yon examined the body.
Did you discorer any bruises about it ?
Witness— Only an old bruise under the arm.
The Judge—Then we miy take it that there were
no marks of external violence about the body?

IVitnes3—Yo.
The learned Jndg•.—No marks at all to denote
that she had fallen backwards ?

IVituess—None, my lord.
The learned Judge—No indica:ion of anything
having come in violent contact with the head ?
Witness—None, my lord.
Edward Dillon, 19 K, said he was on duty at the
station house when the prisoner was brought there
on the 3d of August. The charge was read over to
him, and he then made a statement, in which he
said he was innocent of murdering the young woman,
that he knew nothing about it. The statement
made by the prisoner was a voluntary one. No
questions were put to him, and he was cautioned
before he did so.

Mr. Richards, the deputy-coroner, was examined
as to the statement the prisoner made before him
at his own request. _ . .

Sergeant Brady said—When he charged the pri-
soner with the wilful murder of Agnes Oakes at
the hospital, he replied "Just so."
By Mr. Ribton—The prisoner was not in bed
when he went to the hospital to remove him to the
station. He received the clothes of the prisoner
from the head nurse, and gave them to Professor
Taylor.
Professor Alfred Taylor said—l have been in
court during the whole of the trial. I heard Mr.
Horton's descripeion* of the wound on deceased's
throat, and I agree with him in the opinion that a
person in a state of frenzy or delirium might inflict
such an injury.
Mr. Poland Assuming that the deceased in-
flicted the wound herself, would the injury to the
arteries or that to the spine be done first 2—The
injury to the bone.
The injury to the spine could not have been done
after the vessels had been cut through ?—No.
The learned Judge—ln your judgment after the
wound had been inflicted would the deceased have
had power of motion ?—Yes, to some extent.
Mr. Poland—ln what period in your judgment,
after such an injury, would death have followed ?
In a very few minutes.
You have heard Mr. Horton's description of the
state of the body; can you form any opinion how
soon before Mr. Horton saw her should you say
death had taken place ?-111y belief is that she could
not have been dead less than two hours ; it might
be five hours, considering the time of year and the
condition of the health of the deceased. There is a
great difference in the time a body takes to cool in
the two cases of a person dying suddenly in full
health of body and one dying slowly.
The Learned Judge—Does the loss of blood affect
the cooling of the body ?—No, the loss of blood does
not do so.
The Learned Judge—l believe that you and Dr.
Wilks, of Guy's Hospital, have paid great attention
to the time the body takes to cool ?—Yes, we have
paid particular attention to it.
Mr. Poland—You have examined the handker-
chief the prisoner had about his neck, and the cut
that appears through the folds; should you expect, if
that had been made at the time the prisoner re-
ceived the cut on his throat, to find blood on th e
edges of the folds ?—Yes, supposing it was worn in
the ordinary way.
You have also examined the cut on the shirt ?
Yes; and I should have exp-cted to find blood ou
the edges of the cu) also.
You have examined the prisoner's boots ?—Yes,
I have. I found one or two drops of blood on the
instep, showing that it had fallen there when the boot
was not worn. There was also a spot of coagulated
bloo,l which had fallen just above the toe. There was
none on the middle of the sole of the boot inside the
boot, there was no appearance of blood, but on re-
moving the dirt from the leather, a very small par-
ticle was found—only enough to see that it was
blood. I have examined both boots, there was only
a small quantity of blood on either. There was a
good deal of blood in the stockings. That was
probably owing to the prisoner being in his stockings.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—With respect to
the time the body takes to cool, I have had many
cases of violent death to found my experience on.
Mr. Ribton then read a case from Dr. Taylor's
book, in which death had not occurred until half
an hour after the arteries had been severed, and
asked the witness whether he adhered to the case
still, as the book had been published in 1865?
Professor Taylor—l adhere to that statement
still. Every case has its special conditions. In the
case you mentioned the windpipe was not severed.
When such an injury is done the blood gushes into
it, producing suffocation, and death is almost in-
stantaneous.
By the learned Judge—Might not the first plunge
of the knife have caused the injury to the spine ?
Yes.
The wound, then, could not be inflicted but by a
person suffering under great excitement ?—By a
person suffering from frenzy, delirium, or insanity.
Mr. Ribton—ln cases of undoubted suicide have
you not met with cases of very severe injuries ?
Yes, but not involving the spine and the vertebras.
Dr. Wilks—l have, with Dr. Taylor, paid parti-
cular attention to the time at which rigor mortis sets
in, and having heard Mr. Horton's description of
the wound on the throat of the deceased, and his
description of the state of the body, I should think
that death must have taken place at least from two
to three hours previous to his seeing it. That would
be rather under than over the mark. I cannot re-
collect a case in which rigidity set in under three
hours.
Mr. Poland—Do you think it possible that the
deceased could have inflicted the wound on her throat
with her own hand?
itness—lt is barely possible. My reason for
saying so is, that I have known such a case in a
man, but never in a woman.
Mr. Ribton—Thank you, sir. I shall ask you
no further questions.
Witness—Do you properly understand me ?
Mr. Ribton—Yes, I do.
Mr. Scott having been called to speak to the cor-
rectness of the plan produced in court,
Mr. Poland said that would conclude the case for
the prosecution.
The learned Judge said there was another witness
who had not yet been examined.
Mr. Poland said ho did not intend to call her.
Mr. Ribton thought the witness ought to be
examined.
Mr. Poland said, under the circumstances, he
would at once call the witness.
Fanny Wiggins said she was a relative- of the
prisoner. With respect to the condition of the
chemise worn by the deceased she tore it in removing
it from the body after death.
By Mr. Ribton—She bad never heard deceased
threaten to destroy herself.
Mr. Poland then summed up the evidence he had
adduced on the part of the prosecution, and con-
tended he had fully made out the truth of the
charge preferred against the prisoner ; but if they
were not of that opinion, and entertained any doubts
on the matter, they would, of course, at once give
him the benefit of the doubt, and return a verdict of
not guilty.
At that part of the learned gentleman's remarks
which alluded to the fact which had been established
in evidence, that although the soles of the prisoner's
stockings were saturated with blood, the inside
of his boots which he had on when he first
gave the alarm that his life had been at-
tempted by the deceased were nearly, if not
entirely, free from marks of blood, the prisoner
betrayed the greatest anxiety. And Mr. Poland
proceeded to remark that he could not but come to
the conclusion that the deceased had been dead
some time previous to that prisoner bad stated, be.

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cause, had he put his boots on at the time he
said he did, the interior of them would have been
very extensively marked with blood. The prisoner
hastily exclaimed, " Beg pardon, may I make a
few remarks." Mr. Ribton at once told his client to
remain silent, and listen without making any fur-
ther appeals to the Court. The prisoner at once
remained silent, but became evidently moved again
when Mr. Poland referred to the fact that although
the deceased's hands were found bloody both inside
and out, yet the h tndie of the knife which the pri-
soner said he had found sticking in the woand was
quite free from blood.
At the conclision of the su.nntio,g up of 7,1 r.
Poland it was proposed to a-ljolrn for rJreslnuent,
but—

Mr. Ribton said he wished t.) be allowed at once
to proceed to address the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, an I the learned Ja.l.;e havi Irr° assented,
the learned counsel commenced and slid- His firni
impresbion was that the pros.ention had started with
the theory that the prisoner's statement was a sham,
and that therefore they had decided upon calling
every particle of evidence which would favour that
view of the case, entirely throwing on one side any-
thing that could tend to dissipate the view of the
transaction they had taken up. One of the first
things the jury would have to make up their minds upon
was the value of the evidence of the witnesses relative to
the alleged cry of murder, said to have been heard at 2
o'clock in the morning. He thought it would bo extremly
hazardous to adopt the version that had been given in
evidence, because the neighbourhood was a very disturbed
one, and it might be possible the witnesses had confounded
the cries which undoubtedly took place at 5 o'clock in
the morning with those they imagined they heard at two.
The witness James Williams did not hear the alleged cry
at two in the morning, neither did Police-constable
Bannister, and he contended that the latter was a
far more experienced constable than Tucker. Further,
if the cry had come from the direction stated
by Tucker, Bannister must have heard it. No less than
four of the witnesses brought forward by the prosecution
must have heard the cry had it occurred at two o'clock
in the morning, yet, iu the most distinct manner, each ono
as ho put the question to them in the most positive manner
stated they had heard nothing of the kind. Then there
was another exclamation heard at the same time and
spoken to by some of the witnesses for the prose-
cution, viz., "You old bitch you are murdering me!'
But by what logical argument he should like to know
could that be construed to apply to the prisoner. It ap-
peared to him that the whole matter arose from some
drunken quarrel that had occurred in a totally different
part of the neighbourhood, and that so far as the cry of
" Murder" coming from the direction of the prisoner's
house at the time stated it was a mistake altogether.
With respect to another proposition put forward
by the prosecution, that the woman had been dead at least
two or three hours before Dr. Horton saw her, he felt
certain they would well consider a circumstance that was
of the highest importance, and that was that on
the one side you had plain unskilled witnesses
whilst on the other they had gentlemen of the
highest scientific attainment& One witness said, in
the course of her evidence, that she saw the body
prior to the arrival of Dr. Horton; that when she felt the
feet and knees of the deceased they were cold ; but was
there anything to show how the unfortunate woman had
laid in her bed on the night the tragedy occurred. It
might have been that her feet were exposed, and that
thereby they became cold. If such was the case it was
not to be expected that they would become sud-
denly warm at the precise time the unhappy woman
inflicted the wounds upon herself with her own hand.
Dr. Horton said, in his examination before the Coroner,
that when he first arrived the body was stiffening, and that
ho was of opinion that death had taken place about an
hour before he arrived. In his examination in that court
he came to the conclusion that death bad taken place
at least two hours when he saw the body. He should
like to know upon which of the two statements Dr.
Horton took his stand, ibecause if a scientific medi-
cal man made such an important difference in his
evidence, of what reliable value did his opinion become ?
If Dr. Horton made such a mistake, was it remarkable
that unskilled persons should be mistaken with respect to
the warmth of particular parts of the body when they
became aware of what had taken place ? He thought they
would require much more positive and reliable evidence
before they could adept the theory of the prosecution.
With respect to the wound boieg a self-inificted one,
Dr. Horton said it was possible that a per-
son in a stat) of frenzy might have inflicted
the wound by his or her own hand, and Dr. Taylor agreed
with hini, and what the prosecutor did oa the present
occasion was to ask the jury coolly to disbelieve their own
witnesses, and to say by their verdict that such a thing
was altogether an impossibility. Upcn that fact, the
strongest one in the case, ho felt ho ha I a
right to ask for au acquittal, for he felt cer-
tain they would not consign the man now before them
to the scaffold upon evidence such as that which Lis
learned friend representing the Crown had brought for-
ward. The whole of the evidence against the piisoner
was purely circumstantial, and that would form another
reason why the whole of the theories advanced by the
prosecution, as well as the statements put forward by
the prisoner, should receive the deepest consideration.
It was difficult, in cases even where direct evidence
was offered to come to a firm and settled consideration
entirely free from doubt, but how much more was that
difficulty increased when the main facts of the case in
which the prisoner's life was perilled were enveloped in
darkness and mystery. There was nothing in tho whole
of the evidence offered to preclude the possibility of the
deceased committing suicide, and, with respect to the
position in which the body was found the medical
testimony clearly showed that deceased would still have
power, immediately after the wound had been inflicted,
to do something, and this would account for the posi-
tion in which the body was found. With respect to the
cut in the handkerchief, which was made a great point of in
the case, he thought it quite as much like a tear as a
cut; and, if the former, might it not have been caused in
the struggle the prisoner had for his life previous
to the deceased inflicting on herself the injury which
caused her death. He could account for the cut, as it was
called, in the collar of the shirt in many ways, and none
more likely than that it was in reality a rent caused by
buttoning the collar too tight. Then the mystery
made about the chemise, Fanny Wiggins, thanks to
the learned Judge who had directed her to bo examined,
positively stated that she tore it very much in removing it
from the dead body, and there was no reason to doubt the
tru hof her s tory, because had she desired to serve her relative
by the sacrifice of truth she could have done so in a far
more important manner than merely swearing to the tear-
ing of the chemise. With respect to the blood being on
the soles of the stockings, and not in the interior of the
boots, there was nothing important in that fact, for it was
more than likely the prisoner walked about the room in the
first instance without his boots, and thus blood beingabout
ho would mark his stockings, and then in his
passing to other parts of the house in which there
was both dust and dirt the dust would absorb the blood
and the warmth of the foot would hastily dry it, so that
the absence of blood from the interior of the shoes
went for nothing. The learned gentleman then in the
most impressive terms concluded his observations,
by remarking that in a case so surrounded with
doubt the medical evidence settled the matter, for
how could the jury by their verdict say a thing
was impossible when the most eminent scientific
gentlemen of the ago said was possible. He felt they would
agree with him that the charge had not been proved
against the prisoner, and they would not shrink from say-
ing so by their verdict.
The learned Judge then summed up the case to the jury.
The jury had not returned their verdict when we went
to press.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Smith.)
THE FORGERIES ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

Henry Hodgson, who yesterday pleaded guilty to
an indictment charging him with forging certain
documents with a view of defrauding the Governor
and company of the Bank of England, made
a long statement, in which he stated that insanity
had existed in his family for many years.
The learned Judge remarked that there was
nothing which could induce the belief that the pri-
soner was labouring under any delusion ; on the
contrary, he had acted in a careful and clever man-
ner. Under all the circumitanc.n of the case he
felt it his duty to sentence him to seven years' penal
sery itude.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Sept. 26.

The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending to-day shows the following changes com-
pared with that of last week :
INCREASE.

Bills discounted ..
Treasury Balance
DECREASE.

Cash in hand 15,200,000fr.
Private accounts 11,600,000 ft
Notes . .
Advances 2oo,oooft.

BOUNDARY COMMISSION.—rhe Manchester City
Council, at a special meeting this morning, resolved that it
is not expedient or desirable that the boundaries of the
Parliamentary boundary of Manchester should be extended,
and a deputation was appointed to support this view before
L the as6istaut-comullesiouere,