The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, RID A Y EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1866.

STODARE'S THEATRE OF MYSTERY,
Egyptian ILdll, Piccadilly.

"WHO'S H E ?"

STUD-ARE (Madame), widow of the late Colonel
Stodare, will present the •,s: INX, MARVFL
AIECCA, and BASK.' TRICK, assisted by Mr. Firbauk
Burman (punil of Colonel Stociare), in col. Stodare's ROYAL
ENTE BTAIN :KENT o, MAGIC, at the Tim ITRE OF
lICSTERY, iczyptian Hall, eve,-3, ev:-ning- at 8 ; eduesday
and Saturday mo.liiruis at 3 Admission-Is. and 25.; stalls,
Schocos an.i eivictren half-price. Seats secured at the
ilox-offiee, from 11 till 6, and at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33,
0:d Bond street.

Mil. JA.NIES WEAVER, Manager.

rr II E 0 X F 0 it D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.,

THE MUSICAL ES rAnusii 31F NT ,}` LONDON.

Brilliant ltuvival of Offenbach's "SIX rY-SIX." Misses
Ilusse4, Fitz Henry, and Barrie; Mersra. St. Albyn, Marler,
,nd Bury.

Comedy by linrry Sydney (the political Momus). Robert
Fraser (Buffo Vocalist and Comedian —a great success). Hons.
Peterson with his high'y trained troupe of Performing
Dogs.

EXTRA ATTRACTIONS during THIS WEEK.
~rest success of LES A.IIA.ZONES AU CHAMPAGNE
DIVERTISSEMENT.

Musical Director and Conductor, Kr. F. Jonglimans

TFIF, BOY AT HUG BY, a Musical Sket:h, founded on
:qr. Charles Dickens's Christmas Story, written by Mr.
Green, composed by tlr. K. Cool 0, person ted by Mr. ROBT.
FBA -RR, by permission of Charles Dickens, Req., will
shortly be produced.

WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
HOLBORN.

Sole Proprietors, SWEASBY and HOLLAND.

The most triumphant success ever attained in any
Musical Establishment. Grand Selection from Auber's
Opera of " MASANIELLO," by 40 vocalists dressed in
costume as at the opera. Terrific ovation of the Irish
Minstrels, with songs, dances, and Irish anecdotes, under
the direction of Pat orri. A new and original overture
composed and arranged expressly for the above minstrels
by Mr. 11. Baker. Comic supported by Arthur Lloyd,
Jolly Nash, Georgina Smithson, Miss Fancourt. Paddy
Fannin, Patrick Sellers, and Harry and Kattie King.
Majilton as Messestophles ; and Pis Watkin, the Persian
Juggler. Band of 30 first-class mars, and large Chorus
chosen from her Majesty's and Covent Garden Opera
Houses. Musical Director, Mr. P. CORRI.
Prices of admission - Stalls and Balcony, ls.; Area, Gd. ;
Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. Can be secured at the Box Office,
between the hours of 10 and 5 o'clock. Hall open every
Evening at 7 o'clock, commencing at Half-past.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET.
NEW EDITIONS. —A Life-size Portrait-Model of the
PRINCESA MARY OF CAMBRIDGE, a Marriage Group
of the PRINCESS HELENS and PRINCE CHRISTIAN.
Admiktance, le.; children, under ten, half-price; extra
rooms. 6d.
Open from 11 a tu. till dusk, and from 7 p.m. till 10.

ARGYLL ROOMS. -GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street. PL:cadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms. having been entirely re-
decorated, are now OPEN EVERY EVENING for Concert
sod Dancing. Conductor, Signor Luct CURTL Manager,
GRENET.

Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shi

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Trains every
five minutes.

ETROP 0 LITAN RAILWAY Moorgate-
aL sireet Station.

MET I{ OP( ILITAN RAlLWAY—Aldersgate-
street Station. •

UETROPOLITAN RAlLWAY—Farringdon-
IY_L street Station.

lIIETR OP 0 LITAN RAIL WAY—K in.a's-cross
Station.

31ETROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Gower-street
StAt on.

VIETROPOLITAN RAIL WAY Portland-
road S3ation.

nETROPOLITAN RAILWAY.— Regent-
circus2RB, Re o eng aettt)o. (opposite, LIMA,
CO3IVANY'S SPECIAL 03INIRUSES to and from Port-
land-road Station meet every Train.

31ETROPOLITAN RAILWAY—Baker-street
Station.

ATETROPOLITAN RAILWAY Edgware:
121.1 ro Station.

I'iTETROPOLITAN 11.\ILIVAY -- Bishop's-
_ViL road station.

11 ji ET ROPOIATAN RAILWAY--Trains every
IL fire minutes.
MILES' FENTON, General Kanager.

IGtrts
II ,N)SAT EySLFE,,
xRN
ra
Trains between the C•ty, kiow, stroet,
land-road, Itezent-circus, Baker•str et, RilLtware-r ad and
Padilingtnn, Ilarainer•nnith. Ken.itr,4t .n, tihe,therd's-bush,
Notting-hi 1, and iVestbourve-psi k.

FALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real
Malt," 19s per aallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear-
ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered
to the trade for the sate of thi4 frenn'ua oid s Ara, which is
coming into universal consumption through England.
For price lists Liply at Ofil `es, 14, Strand, London, W.C.
Established in Gratton-street, Dublin, A.D. 1780.

DUN-YULE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,

Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.

"V.R." IRISH WHISKY.

DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH
WHISKY, BELFAST!

London Ofh:ei and Stores,
4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C.
Established 18(8. Quotations on application.

JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork.---" The purest spirit and safest drink in Ihe
world." 1,0..d0n Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, L.C.,
next the '• Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
ILII Cork, beg to announce that they ere able to supply the
trade with their celebrated Whiskies. in casks or cases, and
to take orders in bon.l at d for exportation, at their cffices, 7,
Printing-hou,e-square, London, E C.. the only house in the
square not occupied by ihq "Times." .T. D. and Co.'s whiskies
bring the highest prices in the Australian and othe Colonial
markets, as may be observed by reverence to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. pt,:. case over the next
13, St, and Is. 6d per gallon anti ss. 6d. a case over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large supply 01. ye y old
mellow Nv.-!isky ha the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, int, plied on the
most reasonable terms.

THE OCEAN ST. LEGER of 1866.—What
Lord Lyon was to his owner was the Taepinp.: to her
Caul ain, viz.. whine,* of the race. hAving distancel ..11 com-
petitors, as the EAST I v DIA. TEA COMPANY have in-
variab y done in their etoi e and ssle of fine new season's
teas, now sAlinfs, at imp3rter's prices. Warehouses-9, Great
St. tlelen's-oZiurchy.:rd.

A VALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.-
AL A CHINESE CADDY, containing 161bs. of really
good Blae.: Tea, stilt carriage free to any railway sta'ion or
markt.' town 'n En4land, Ireland, scotiancl. or Wales, on re-
ceipt of 405., by PHILLIPS and CO , Tea Merchants, 8,
King William-street, City, E.C.

TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.--I.s. 6d ,
25.. 25 6 per lb. arc the prices at which PHILLIPS
and CO Tea Merchan s, 8, King William-street, City, L,n-
don, 8.C., :re selling gool and fine BLACK TEA. A price
current post •ree. 404 I-Torth carnage tree to any railway
station ur ma k:c town in the Uni'ed Kingdom.—Obs,rve—
PHILLIPS and 00. have no Agents or any connexion with
any house in Worcester or Swansea. Sugars are supplied at
market prices.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
SHIP. £2,n00 required.
WILLIANIS; Secretary.
Boys' Ref age. 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
g TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY ROUE. £l,OOO required.
WM. WILLI allS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8. Great Queen-street. W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee ate most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now In the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
£5,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to nay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, ig,h Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Fall-Mall East; and by
WM. WILLIASIS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Provilelice:row, Finsbury, E.C.

Sixty Thou'sand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has boon raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will lie required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is propssed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the RON% D. GILBT.ItT D.D IN°, _22
” _
Finsbury-circus,

QT. GEORGE'S CATHEI)RAI,, Southwark.—
n ItiST3IAS--DAY selema PON TIEtCAL MASS,
;,t Eleven a.m., with Full Instrumental Accompanime.,t.
Musie—Gonnod'a Jlass, Lutz'a " Viderunt," " Atiesti
Fiodet'," Ste.

TIRITISII AND FOREIGN ART UNION.-
A f, M EETING of ibe Shareholdeir, will be
IrAd ar the (Mice No. 30, Juli-street, 11,Aford-row. nn
'l'llUl'S JAY, the 3,1 day of .January, 1567, fur the i,IfAW-
ING of the SPECIAL 1.0 CIEItY.

"*".„ REWARD. —Whereas some evil-disposed
_Lpfi, Person or Persons did enter the premises of
Mr. Cooper, Florist and Gardener, Balfour Cottage, Ful-
ham-fields, on the night of Saturday, the 24th, or the
morning of Sunday, the 25th of November (ultimo), and
did cruelly and feloniously CUT ASUNDER a living PIG,
and nearly Sever the Head of a second living Pig, and did
Wound other Pigs. This is to give Notice, that whoever
will give information to the undersigned, or at the Wal-
ham-green Police-station, leading to the punishment of the
Offender or Offenders, shall, upon conviction, receive the
above Reward.

JOHN COLAM, Secretary.
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
12, Pall-mall, Dec. 18, 1866.

Z IN AHAN'SEXHIII4I;I:NIiggY. .1) ÜBLIN
This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the
)üblin Prize Medal.
It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Whole-
•ome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ;
y the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or
wholesale at
R, GREAT WIND3IILL-STREET, LONDON, W.
Observn thn Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
" Kinaha.n's LL Whisky."

'UAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
‘l.[ (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, ISA,
4, RUSSELL-STREET, CCVENT-GARDEN, LONDON.
Prompt ADVANCES of all description of ziecurlty. Farms
free ora,applbution by letter to
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

COUNTRY HOTELS, PUBLIC HOUSES,
and RUSIN r;SSES.
FURNESS and KNEE'S List on application.
Particalars for insertion received until the 27th of the
month at their
AUCTION AND HOTEL AGENCY OFFICES,
5, Agar-street, S.rand, W.C., and nearly opposite the
Charing Crr.ss Railway Station.

MANFIELD'S PATE NT PICKLES are per-
fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of ail dealers
and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107. Strand
(corner of Savoy-steps). Loudon.

TUCERNE-MEWS a New Block (private
A mews for gentlemen only', the Mall, close to Ken,ing-
ton-pal.ce-gardens, Notting-hill. First-class STABLES,
coach-house and rooms over, fitted up with every modern
improvement, to be LET, on LEASE, direct from the free-
holder. For terms apply to Messrs. Swain and Son, the
Lodge. ; or to Messrs. Debenham, Tewson, an .1
Farmer, 80, Cheapside.

BOYS' & 11YAM. aryl CO.

fIOYS' at 66 and 67, OXFORD-ST.

BOYS' NEW STY LtIrVE rt c OATS.

BOYS' NEW STYLE REEFERS.

BOYS' KNICKERBOCKER SUITS.

BOYS, OSBORNE SUITS.

BOYS' HARROW SUITS.

BOYS' JACKETS for ALL PURPOSES.

BOYS' TROUSERS and, VESTS.

BOYS' HOSIERY and SHIRTS.

BOYS' HATS, CAPS, &e., &g.

HYAM & Co.'s BOYS' IV INTER CLOTHING,
66 and 67, Oxford-street, London.
The First Establishment in the Kingdom for Juvenile
Clothing.
Boys' Sandringham Overcoats lss. to 355.
Boys' Prince Alfred Reefers
Boys' Overcoats for Little Boys
Boys' Knickerbocker Suits lss. to 355.
Boys' Westminster and Osborne Suits lss. to 355.
Boys' Eton, Harrow, and Rugby Suits
Boys' Jackets for School and Home 9s. to 21s.

HYAM and Co.'s ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN,
66 and 67, Oxford-street, London.
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 30s.
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Reefer Capes 3os. to 84s.
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Overcoats
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Suits 42s. to 70s.
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Jackets
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Frock Coats
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Vests
Hyam and Co.'s Winter Trousers l4s. to 255.

niYAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS.
1. Gentlemen's Clothing far immediate Wear.
2. Bespoke or Order Department.
3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department.
4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department.

jealous of her paramour, and that she suspected he
was connected with another woman at Town Kil-
ling, and this frequently led to quarrels between
them, and the prisoner frequently made use of
threats of vio!ence towards Highanas ; and the sug-
gestion on the part of the prosecution was, that the
dreadful crime was committed during a paroxysm
of anger from jealousy. , A day or two before the
murder was committed the prisoner was sent to Lon-
don by Highams to purchase some carrots, and dur-
ing her absence he seemed to have gone to Town
Mailing and remained there all night, and when
the prisoner returned she reproached him with hav-
ing stayed away all night with another woman, and
they had repeated guards between this time and the
following Saturday, when the murder was alleged
to have been committed. The prisoner and

Highams' went to bed at their usual time on the

Saturday evening, the deceased child, who was four
years old, sleeping at the foot of the bed, and the
baby being in bed with the prisoner and Highams,
and nothing particular seemed to have occcured until
between 4 and 5 o'clock on the following morning,
when Highams was awoke by finding the prisoner
in the act of chopping at his head with a most for-
midable instrument called a billhook.. lie held up
his hands to endeavour to protect himself, but the
prisoner continued chopping at him until she ap-
peared to be exhausted, and then went downstairs.
Highanis went down soon afterwards, and the pri-
soner then renewed her attack upon him, but some
persons came to his assistance, and the prisoner,
who had' thowti-thtr-tllltdolt -htrio-riti-§2sThe hon-

poles, was taken into custody. At this time it lias
not known that anything had been done to the child,
but upon the police going upstairs to the bedroom
they discovered the poor little boy Jeremiah with his
head nearly severed from his body by a razor, which
was left in the wound. The prisoner, on being
charged with the murder, denied that it was she
who had committed it, and she asserted that it was
her paramour (Highams) who had killed the child,
and she said that it was on account of his having
done so that she had made the attack upon him
with the billhook; and she persisted in this state-
ment when she was taken before the magistrate, and
this was the defence that was set up for her on the
present occasion. The learned sergeant, in the
course of his address, said there :was not the
slightest doubt that a most foul and horrible mur-
der had been committed, and that the only ques-
tion for the jury would be, whether the prisoner or
the man Highams was the guilty party.
After some formal evidence had been given, Wal-
ter Highams, the person referred to, was examined.
He is an ordinary labouring-looking man about 45
years of age. He detailed the intimate connexion
that existed between him and the prisoner, and said
that they lived pretty comfortably togther down to
the month of April ; but a day or two before the
14th of that month the prisoner was very angry with
him for having stopped all night at Town Mailing,
and she threatened that she would do him some vio-
lence, and they had a quarrel on 13th April. The
deceased child, the baby, and witness and prisoner
went to bed on Saturday night the 14th, and about
5 o'clock on the following morning he found the
prisoner hadgot up and dressing herself. He asked
her why she had got up so early, and she replied
that she was's° troubled in her mind that she could
not sleep, and said she would get up and make her-
self a cup of tea. She left the room and he went to
sleep, and he was awoke by receiving some violent
blows on the head, and on looking up he saw the
prisoner holding a bill-hook with both hands and
chopping at his head with the instrument. He put
up his hands to save his head, and the prisoner con-
tinued striking at him, and wounded him oa b
hands, and she chopped off two of the fingers from
his right hand. While she was doing this she ex-
claimed, "I've killed one, and finish killing you,
and I will kill all three." While the prisoner was
striking him he let the baby fall into the bed, and
after a short time she went down stairs, taking th 3
bill-hook with her. Witness was very faint and
weak from loss of blood, and after prisoner had gone
he got out of bel and slid down the staircase, to the
lower room and found the prisoner there, and she
seized him by the hair and knocked his head against
the wall, and again said she would kill him, and
that she intended to kill all the three. Prisoner at
this time struck him on the shoulders with the bill-
hook, and then wentout of doors and threw it away,
and some persons who had heard the alarm and
cries of murder came to his assistance, and he was
taken to the infirmaryat Tunbridge Wells, where he
remained 14 weeks. At the time he left the bed
room be was not aware that any injury had been
inflicted upon the child Jeremiah. A razor was
shown to him with which the child's throat had been
cut, but he was not able to say whether it was his
razor or not. lie had a razor which was in a
case in a closet down stairs, but he had not used it
for some time, and he was unable to say whether
this was the same or not.

In cross-examination this witness said he was a
married man, and the prisoner had lived with him and
his wife' for some time before she was married, but he
lost sight of her for several years after she was mar-
ried, and when they next became acquainted it was
agreed between them that she should leave her hus-
band and. be his wife, and that they should live
together. At first the prisoner took a lodging for
herself and the child Jeremiah at Greenwich, and he
supported her, and used to go and see her once a
fortnight. The prisoner's husband was aware she
was living with him, but he did not know whether his
own wife knew that the prisoner was living with
him. He did not know what Ead become of his own
wife, but lie had heard that she was living at Maid-
stone. He had searched for her, but had not been
able to find her. The witness was then pressed as
to whether he had not, when he was examined before
the magistrate, omitted to say anything about the
prisoner having said that she was in so much trouble
during the night that she could not sleep, and he said
he was so " nigh killed" at the time that he hardly
knew what he said. He also said he was not sure
that he told the magistrate anything about the pri-
soner saying that she had killed one and that she
would kill all the three, but he declared that iu point
of fact she did make use of this expression. 'Witness
likewise said that when he was originally examined
he said that the razor was his, and he accounted for
having any doubt upon that point now by saying that
the prisoner bought the razor, and he had only used
it twice, because it did not cut ; and although he be-
lieved that the razor with which the child's throat had
been cnt was the same, he could not swear positively
to it. He then said he knew a woman named Eagle-
ton, and be believed she had had a child by him, or
it might be two. (A laugh.)
Re-examined—The prisoner was aware of his
connexion with this woman, and was very angry
with him about it. She came to their house upon
one occasion, and the prisoner and she quarrelled
and fought.
Evidence was then adduced to show that at the
time the prisoner was taken into custody she made
the following extraordinary state►rent :
" That devil has killed my child, and I will have
my revenge on him too. God is above the devil, and
I have conquered the devil. He intended to kill me
—he had the chopper upstairs, and intended to kill
me, only I found it, and I got the master of the
devil. I thought there was something up. I went to
London yesterday, and he wanted me to stop all
night ; and I thought there was something up and
came back the same night, and when I came back I
found him with another woman, and I will have my
revenge upon the devil for it."

Evidence was then adduced to show that at the
time the discovery was made the front of the clothes
of the prisoner was completely saturated with blood,
while with regard to the man Highams there did not
appear to be a larger quantity of blood upon his
shirt, for he had nothing but that garment on at the
time, than would be reasonably accounted for as