The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-10 00:00:00

Charge of Murder.

At the Bow-street Police-court yesterday William
Wallace, described as a punch maker, was charged
before Sir Thomas Henry with having caused the
death of a woman named Elizabeth Jefferies, with
whom he lived, at 4, Taylor's-buildings, Bedford-
bury. Mr. Alfred Harvey, surgeon, of 3, Southamp-
ton-street, Strand, deposed that on Tuesday after-
noon, about a quarter to two o'clock, the prisoner
called at his house and said, " I am afraid that a
woman with whom I have been living is dead."
The witness consented to go to his lodgings in Bed-
fordbury, and on their way there the prisoner said,
" We had both been drinking on Sunday, and dur-
ing a scuffle in the afternoon she fell against a bed-
post." The prisoner took the witness upstairs into
a third-floor front room, and there he saw a woman
lying dead upon the bed, but still partially warm.
She was dressed, and 1) ing on her back. Both her
eyes were blackened and swollen, so much so that one
of them was quite closed up. The injuries on her face,
which must have been caused by blows, appeared to
have been inflicted about 48 hours previously. She
had been dead about an hour and a half. The witness
advised the prisoner to call in a policeman and state
the whole particulars of what had occurred, and the
prisoner seemed very willing to do so. The body
was removed to the deadhouse, or catacombs under
St. Martin's Church ; on Wednesday a post mortem
examination was made, and the witness found the
immediate cause of death was the pressure of a clot
of blood the size of a pigeon's egg upon the brain,
and the clot was formed by the vessels injured by all
external blow. He could not say if the injury was
produced by a blow or a fall. Police-constable F
124 and Sergeant F 14 both visited the lodging's
where the body lay, and heard the prisoner say they
had a drunken quarrel and fight on Sunday after-
noon and she fell against the bedpost. On Wed-
nesday, after the inquest, they thought proper to
apprehend the prisoner, who, on the way to the
police station, said the deceased had occasionally
suffered from dizziness and deafness of the left ear,
caused by a fall over the balusters about five weeks
ago. A woman who lived in the same house, named
Kennedy, and who knew the prisoner and deceased,
had declined to attend, and two other women, com-
pelled to admit the drunken habits of both, declared
the deceased to be " far the worse of the two." Sir
T. Henry said these witnesses were evidently par-
tial to the prisoner, although unable to deny that
he had blackened the woman's eyes and treated her
her brutally. The prisoner was remanded.

MARKETS.--This day.

MARK-LANE.

Tho quantity of English wheat received fresh up to-
day was limited. The show of samples was consequently
small, yet the demand for both red and white parcels
was in a sluggish state, at Monday's currency.
In foreign wheat, the supply of which was good, only a
moderate business was doing. In prices no change took
place.

Floating cargoes of grain were very moderate.
Both English and foreign barley was a slow sale, but
not cheaper.
Malt was in fair average supply, and moderate request,
at full prices.
The oat trade was inactive. In prices, howovor, very
little change took place. The imports of foreign oats wero
very large.
Beans and peas changed hands slowly, but at full q'tiota-

,ions.
Flour, seeds, and cakes were very quiet, at late rates,

SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 950 50 650 1,060
Irish —
Foreign 291 710 1,620

220
- 44,820 840 sacks
Maize, 2,060 qrs•

NENVGATE AND LEADENBALL.

Owing to the prevailing warm weather the supplies of
Scotch and country killed meat have fallen off. The
trade, however, is in a sluggish state, as follows :

Per 81b by the carcase.

adsd s d e 4
Inferior beef 3 2 3 6 Inferior matton....3 4 3 °
it
Middling do. 3 8 4 0 Middling mutton.. 4 u 4 .
Prime large do t 2 4 4 Prime do i 6 4 :
Crime small d0....4 4 4 6 Large pork 3 0 3 u
Veal 4 0 5 4 Small pork. 3 8 4 4
Laiub, 55 10d to Oa Sd
BOROUGH HOP.

The transactions in all kinds of hops are very moderate*
but no further decline has taken place in the quotations.
Mid and East Keats
Faruha►n and country
Weald of Kent
Sussex
Yearlings loos to 135 s ~
Olds sos to 80s
COLONIAL.

TEA.—The public sales of, brought to a con-
clusion yesterday, 22,776 packages were offered, of whi'-'ll
16,763 were sold, all being without reserve, prices in soma
instances ruling a shade higher.
StiGAR.—A good business has been done in West India,
and prices generally have slightly advanced, particularly
for the better descriptions. Refined goods are firm; cora
mon lumps and titlers being quoted 425. 9d. to 435. per cwt'
COFFEE. —The market remains steady without any Tna•-
terial change to make in values, Plantation Ceylon being
in fair request.
Ries.—Supplies on offer continue very limited, and
holders demand fully late rates.
TALLOW.—Businoss has been very quiet, and quoa:
tions tend downwards, P.Y.C. on the spot being 4je
and last three menthe 44s per cwt.,