The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-28 00:00:00

Tli E SCN, LONPOIN, MONDA Y EVENING, MAY 28, 1866.

MARKETS.---This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The demand for wheat inothe country markets held on
Saturday was in a most active state. The changes in prices
were by no means important, but the tendency was de-
cidedly in favour of buyers. The spring corn trade ruled
quiet at previous quotations. Flour was dull on former
terms.

On the Continent the corn trade generally has ruled
quiet, but firm as regards prices. At Now York the value
of wheat and flour is well supported.
The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our markets
were rather limited, but the condition of the produce was
good. The trade was in a most inactive state for all de-
scriptions, and sales could only be concluded by submitting
to a decline in prices of ls. per quarter. The amount of
business transacted was very limited, and prices must, in a
considerable degree, be considered nominal.
The supply of foreign wheat on sale was moderate. For
all descriptions the trade was very quiet, and prices had a
downward tendency.
Floating cargoes of grain were in limited request, at
barely late rates.

The supply of English barley on sale was small—of
foreign, moderate. All descriptions were in slow request,
at last Monday's currency.
Malt was in slow request, at the rates current on
Monday.

Peas were firm, at the extreme prices of Monday last
The market was very moderately supplied.
The market was well supplied with oats. The trade
was very full, and prices declined quite Gd per qr. The
quality of the American oats on offer is poor.
Beaus were in short supply, and were in demand at
fully late rates.

bo disposed of. Privately tho wool trado is quiet, at barely
late rates.

Current prices of English wool per lb.
5d 0 d
Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 8 1 9
Half-bred do llO 111
Kent fleeces
South Down owes and wethers 1 8 1 9
Leicester do
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

TALLOW.
Very little business is passing in tallow to-day, and
prices aro lower. P.Y.C. is quoted at 40s Gd per cwt. on
the spot ; town tallow, 40s Gd, net cash ; rough fat, 2s ld
per Blbs.

Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866.
Stock this day 37,744 48,887 31,732 27,772
Price of Y.C.
I—s Od —s Od —s Oct Os 03
Delivery last week 929 989 1,369 578
Ditto from June 1 — 74,258 93,912 102,173
Arrival last week
Ditto frc in June 1 — 85.298 80,623 97,462
Price of Town

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justico Cockburn,
and Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Shee.)
BItYANT V. JOHNSON.
In this case a rule was obtained by the defendant, calling
on the plaintiff to show cause why au award in his favour
should not be set aside, on the ground that the arbitra-
tions had received certain ex parte statements without
giving tho defendant an opportunity of replying to them.
Mr. Hannon now showed cause against a rule, and from
the learned counsel's statement it appeared that both
parties were surgeons, and some months since defendant
sustained an accident on a railway and was attended by
the plaintiff, and the company paid £2,500 compensation
to the defendant. He then applied to the defendant for
remuneration for his professional services, which was re-
fused by him on the ground that it was not the etiquette
of the profession for one medical man to take money from
another, and that the plaintiff was entitled merely to the
expenses he had incurred. The dispute between the parties
was referred to arbitration, Sir William Ferguson being
one of the arbitrators, last November.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said that when the rule was
granted, it appeared that Sir William Ferguson was a
better medical man than a lawyer, and had received letters
which ho admitted and acted upon.
Mr. Hannen—Exactly, my lord. The learned counsel
then proceeded to stato that it was agreed between the
parties that their attorneys should interchange statements
of their respective cases, which the defendant alleged was
not done. He then proceeded to argue that any irregu-
larity throughout the proceedings was acquiesced in by
the defendant.
Mr. Sergeant Atkinson replied.

The Lord Chief Justice, in delivering the judgment of
the Court, said that the proof absolutely was that tho de-
fendant, in making out his claim against the company,
charged for medical attendance, as it was not disproved.
If it was not the etiquette of the medical profession for one
of its members to take compensation from another, certainly
no charges for services should be claimed, but, if such were
made, then unquestionably it was a case in which the pro-
fessional etiquette did not apply. There was some irre-
gularity in reference to the admissability of a ce7tain letter,
according to the ordinary rules of evidence ; but he fully
approved the award. Under the circumstances, the rule
would be discharged with costs.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Roche.)

IN RE CAPT. UNDERWOOD.-TIIE DISPUTED UNDERWOOD

wiLL CAeE.
The bankrupt was described as a captain and adjutant
of volunteers, of 9, Malvern-villas, Hounslow, and to-day
was appointed for choice of assignees and proof of debts.
The bankrupt comes up on his own petition, the debts
already filed amounting to about £6OO. The cause of
bankruptcy is said to be " Failure in receiving monies from
my mother in consequence of my father's will having been
disputed, and having been sued by many creditors."
Amongst the secured creditors are Messrs. J. S. Bogle and
Co. for £6OO, secured by a mortgage on a reversionary in-
terest under the will of the bankrupt's late father, Colonel
Underwood, and bankrupt estimates his interest in the
said will at about £1,300 Assignees were chosen and a
day named for next hearing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day,

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MARLBOROUGII-S TREET.

ATTEMPTED S UICIDE. - Thomas Morris, painter, Upper
Uxbridge-street, Notting-hill, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with being drunk and attempting to commit
suicide.

Mr. Yeeles, a young man, said that on Saturday evening,
while passing through Kensington-gardens, ho saw the
prisoner jump into the Round-pond, and he immediately
went and pulled him out, and assistance then came up.
Park.constable-HoWes said that, on going to the pendi
ho found the prisoner, who, though 'of small stature, be-
having in such a violent manner that it took four men to
hold him down. The prisoner said if he did not drown
himself then he would some other time, and his conduct
continued so violent that he was obliged to send for the
stretcher and strap him down, and in doing so he received
several kicks from him. The prisoner was very drunk.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said, although the prisoner had boon
drinking, he should certainly remand him for a week.
ROBBERIES AT TILE ILLUMINATIONS.—WiIIiam Shepherd,
a lad, was charged with stealing an eye-glass from the
person of Mr. Valentine Engleby, while in Savile-row, on
Saturday night, viewing the illuminations.
Cheney, 87 C, having given evidence, the prisoner was
remanded.

William Reed, a young man, was charged with robbing
William Davies, a butler, at 13, Stratton-street, Piccadilly,
of his watch.

The prosecutor was viewing the illuminations on Satur-
day at Mr. Poole's, in Savile-row, when he heard a click,
and immediately missed his watch, and saw the chain in
the prisoner's hand. He succeeded in retaining possession
of his chain, but the watch was gone.
Inspector Draper asked that the prisoner might be re-
manded, and Mr. Tyrwhitt complied with the request.
Henry Rico and Henry Cox, two boys, were charged
by Butcher, 137 C, with picking pockets in Savile-row.
The constable saw the prisoners try several pockets,
and at last take a pipe from a gentleman's pocket, Cox
being the more active of the two. On being taken to the
station a small purse and white handkerchief were found
upon them.

Mr. Tyrwhitt discharged Rice, who was said to have
fallen into tit° hands of Cox, and remanded Cox.

Destructive Fires in the Metropo'is.
(This Day.)

This morning, at about half-past 12 o'clock, a very de-
structive fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mr.
Muddell, wine and spirit merchant, 188, Whitechapel-road.
Conductor Wood arrived with the Royal Society's escape,
and was followed by the engines of the brigade, but the fire
could not be extinguished until the shop and upper part
of the premises was burnt out, The sufferer is insured.
The origin of the firo is at present unknown. Another
destructive fire broke out on the premises belonging to
Mr. Barton, situate at Boat-street, St. Luke's; but the
fire was confined to the ground floor. Several other fires
took place, and the damage done was very considerable.

A New Mystery.

. I is now just five weals ago that we made public
the extraordinary fatality which had occurred in the
Bushby family, resident at Donkin's Houses. Since
that date the coroner has been pursuing his investi-
gations, and these reveal the outlines of what at pre-
sent appears to be one of the most horrible and mys-
terious cases of poisoning ever perpetrated in this
country. It seems to be placed beyond the shadow
of a doubt that the three brothers Bushby—hale
and hearty men—have been sent successively to
their graves by the administration, repeated and
continuous, of large doses of arsenic ; that other
members of the household which was the scene of
these occurrences have been crippled, possibly for
life, through the same terrible agency ; and that, in
fact, almost every one who ate or drank within the
death-haunted walls came more or less within the
power of this fell influence. Thus much is certain,
if the generally consistent and straightforward tes-
timony given on the inquest is to be believed ; but
how, or why, or by whom death was sown broad-
cast—so to speak—in this ill-fated family, there is
not at present a tittle of evidence to show. Suspi-
cions there may be, but proof there is none.
The inquiry has been spread over such a length-
ened period that we will briefly recapitulate the
facts as ascertained. On the 20th of December the
residents in the farm house at Donkin's Houses were
the three proprietors, George, William, and John
Bushby ; Elizabeth Robley, their housekeeper ; Jane
Watson, a servant ; John Watson, a lad of 10, not
related to the woman of that name, but a nephew of
the Buslibys. John Kennedy, a farm servant,
had just left, after " having some words," and his
place had been filled by Thomas Boyston. On the
21st the destroyer first appeared, and by the end of
the week all the household had been attacked, the
symptoms being precisely similar in each case.
Medical assistance was not immediately thought to
be required, .but as amid slight fluctuations some
of the sufferers grew worse, Dr. Dodd, of Ponte,,
land, was called in, and with him were subse-
quently 'associated Mr. Atkinson, of Wylam,
and Dr. Heath, of Newcastle. But these
gentlemen could search out no cause for this
strange visitation ; nor, although poison was sug-
gested to their minds, did they observe any circum-
stances that tended to confirm that supposition ;
and so, believing the disorder to be a peculiarly ma-
lignant form of diphtheria, arising from local mias-
matic influence, they treated the patients accord-
ingly. From the first the disease fastened with pe-
culiar force upon the brothers, and the result was
that William died cn January 3, George two days
afterwards, while John lingered to the 9th February.
The other patients escaped with their lives, though
some of them are yet. unable to use their limbs. It
was noticed that, almost without exception, the per-
sons attacked were seized soon after partaking of
their meals, and particularly after drinking coffee.
This was shown very plainly in the case of visitors.
Mrs. Brown, a neighbour, and her son were affected
by the usual train of symptoms after taking some
bread and butter
iand coffee, on the 3d of January.
Ann Anderson, another neighbour, became ill upon
having some tea on the following day ; and on the
same 4th of January John Fletcher had the same
results following his partaking of a similar meal.
John Stokoe, a nephew of the deceased, who came
in to assist, was in the house for several days before
he was attacked, after taking some coffee ; while Mr.
Bushby's sister-in-law, who was nursing deceased,
and for a little while enjoyed immunity, was at
length seized so violently that she is now, like Boy-
ston and Robley, without the use of her limbs. Wat-
son also seems. to have had a very narrow escape
from death. Two other leading facts deserve at-
tention. • One is that it sometimes happened that
where a party sat down to a meal together, some of
them would exhibit the peculiar symptoms whilst
others would not be affected. The other is that there
occurred periods in which there seemed to be fresh
and general outbreaks of the complaint, especially on
the 18th and 22d January and the 4th February.
It is not surprising that these extraordinary oc-
currences should have been made the subject of
the investigation which has led to the discovery
of arsenic in the body of John Bushby, and
that the three deaths and ..the whole of the
attacks are now ascribed to the administration of
that virulent poison. It is however unfortunate that
the discovery was not made sooner, when perhaps
the poisoner—for few will believe these are the re-
sults of accident—might have been detected in the
act. In such a case suspicion naturally falls upon
the person who was in the habit of preparing the
family meals, and that such a suspicion existed the
caution of the coroner to the housekeeper shows ;
but then she appears .to have been herself one of the

greatest. sufferers, and gives her evidence in a very
straightforward manner. The conclusion is inevit-

able that the criminal must have had ready access
to the house, and it is absurd to propose that there
was not some special end to gain ; but beyond this
there appears as yet to be no clue to the secret of

his shocking tragedy.—Northern Daily Express.

Murder of a Woman and Suicide of the

Murderer.

INQUEST.

Mr. C. E. Driffield, county coroner, held an
quest on Saturday, at the " Edge-lane Hotel," Old
Swan, upon the body of Mrs. Train, who was brutally
murdered on Thursday night by her cousin, John
Thomass Moss, and also upon the body of Moss
himself, who committed suicide after the murder.
The first witness examined was Margaret Golding,
the deceased Mrs. Train's servant, who said that
her mistress removed from Bootle to Old Swan
about six weeks ago. Moss, who had lodged with
Mrs. Train at Bootle, accompanied her to the house
at Old Swan. When Mr. Train (who was a purser)
came home, about a fortnight ago, Moss left the
house, but used to come in Mr. Train's absence during
the day .in Liverpool to his meals. Mr. Train sailed
on Wednesday morning, and the same day Moss
returned to the house, and took tea with Mrs. Train
that evening.. Witness noticed no peculiarity in
their manner, and they slept that night in different
rooms. Witness stated also that Mrs. Train had
showed her a knife with which Moss said he would
kill her, and while she was packing up—being on the
point of removing to another house—Moss threat-
ened her, but on witness speaking to him he said wit-
ness and her mistress were a brace of fools. Witness
Was afraid to leave her mistress when told to go for
a policeman. This pacified Mrs. Train, who resumed
her packing. Then Moss got a hatchet, Mrs. Train
was again alarmed, but again pacified on his saying-
that he would not harm her. Shortly afterwards
witness heard Mrs. Train scream, " Oh, Margaret 1"
three times in a breath ; and hurrying in witness saw
Moss striking her mistress on the side of the head
with the edge of the axe with all his force. Mrs.
Train turned partly round, when he struck her a
second blow down the centre of the head. Witness,
affrighted, made for the stairs, and when a step or
two down saw a third blow given, and Mrs. Train
fall. As she ran down the stairs she heard a noise
as of several smashing blows. She obtained assist-
ance, two men and police-officers, and again entered
the house. Moss was found in the scullery dead,
with his throat 'but. Moss was a cousin of Mrs.
Train's, and they had always been intimate, but not
improperly so to witness's knowledge. On Thurs-
day, while Mrs. Train was away from the house,
Moss said he wished he was dead, as he could get no
employment. About two months ago he spoke about
being able to cut his throat easily by a particular
vein.

Other witesses stated that when Moss was found
he was quite dead. A recently sharpened tableknife,
covered with blood, was under his leg. In Moss's
pocket was found the following letter 1—" May 24,
1866. Thomas Train.—My sister, or, at least, she
is nearly my sister, you called a —', because
she is not a fit consort for you, and I, who you called
a' spy,' take the opportunity of ridding you (sic) of
her.—l remain yours, &c., J. T. Moss."
Subsequent evidence went to show that Mr. and
Mrs. Train lived together upon very happy terms.
One of the witnesses had heard Moss say that "Mrs.
Train ought to be Mrs. Moss." This witness be-
lieved that Moss had attempted to seduce her, and
that her firm resistance had led him to entertain the
idea of killing her.
' The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder
'and felo de

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-MONDAY.

ASCOT STAKES.
sto 1 agst Ackworth (taken)
6to 1 agst War (taken)
7to 1 agst Love Apple (taken)
Bto 1 agst Forester (taken)
Bto 1 agst Dulcimer (taken)
ROYAL HUNT CUP.
15 to lon the field (offered)
16 to 1 agst Split the Difference (taken)
16 to 1 agst Siberia (taken)
..-20 to 1 agst Molly Carew (taken)

GOLD CUP.
2 to 1 on Gladiateur (taken)
ST. LEDGER.
12 to 1 agst Lord Lyon (taken)

TURF AGENCY OFFICE,
100, Jermyn-street, St. James's, LONDON.
MR. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter-
Ball's) executes COMMISSIONS (by letter only)
on all the principal.races throughout the season, from £1
upwards, on receipt of cash or Post-office Order (payable
at Piccadilly office). COMMISSIONS as usual at starting
prices on the day of a race at all the principal meetings.
For further particulars and prices, see the advertisement in
The Sportsman newspaper every TUESDAY and SATUR-
DAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded
on receipt of stamped directed envelope.
N.B.—lt is particularly requested that ALL LETTERS
containing CASH be registered.
The Sporting Life, Aug. 20, 1864.--" We are satisfied that
all intending backers of horses, who may have been for-
merly in doubt whom to trust, will, without fear foeuanrt,orthoesliotao-
Jerm,
tion,
yn -s send their commissions, to
an
treet."